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SHAKESPEARE'S  *  * 
MEN  AND  WOMEN 


AN 

EVERY 
DAY 
BOOK 


CHOSEN 
AND 

ARRANGED 

BY 

R05E  PORTER 


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70    FIFTH    AVE.,  NEW    YORK 


Copyright,  1897 
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Contents 


January. 

Selections  from 

Gbe  tempest* 
XTwo  Gentlemen  of  \Derona. 
of  Brrors. 


Jfebruan?. 

Selections  from 


ttbe  dfcerrs  TOves  of  Wnfcsor. 
Measure  for  /flbeasure. 

r0  Dream. 


flDarcfo. 

Selections  from 

Aucb  Bt>o  Bbout  fiotbina* 


Xabour 

•» 

BprtL 

Selections  from 

Bs  ffiou  Xike  ft, 
^Tbe  jflbercbant  of  IDenice* 
s  B^TOinter's  ZTale. 

6 


Selections  from 


Naming  of  3be  Sbrew* 
airs  Well  Sbat  £nt>0  TOeiL 
•Ring 


3unc. 

Selection*  from 


"Kfcbarfc  Ebe  Second* 
Icing  fbentB  trbe  ffourtb—patt  f  * 
IbenrB  ^be  JFourtb— part  If , 


Selections  from 


iDenrsttbeffiftb* 
i  1>enrB  £be  Siitb— part  f . 
•Ring  Denrs  Gbc  Siitb— part  f  f . 


Hugust. 

Selections  from 


•Ring  f>enr^  TTbe  Sixtb—part  f  f  f . 
•Ring  IRicbarD  ITbe  £bir&. 
•Ring  Denr^  Ube  Bigbtb* 
7 


September. 

Selections  from 

Julius  Caesar. 
^-  BntonB  anD  Cleopatra* 
Groilus  anD  CressiDa* 

October* 

Selections  from 

®tbello,  ttbe  Aoor  of  TDenice* 

Coriolanus* 

Cimon  ot  Btbens* 

movember. 

Selections  from 

Damlct,  prince  of  5>enmarft* 
f  Borneo  anD  Juliet* 
Pericles,  prince 

December. 

Selections  from 

fting  Xear* 


Bnfcromcus. 
etb* 
poems  anD  Sonnets* 

8 


January. 


Gempeet, 
<Two  Gentlemen  of  IPerona, 
of  Errors. 


©!  won&cr! 

Mow  man^  gooM^  creatures  are  tbere  beret 
Slow  beauteous  manfetnb  is  I    ®,  brave  new  worlb, 
Ubat  bas  sucb  people  in't! 

The  Tempest,  Act  V,  Sc.  i. 


•January  1* 

Wisely,  good  sir,  weigh 
Our  sorrow  with  our  comfort. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

3-anuatE  2* 

Look!    he's  winding  up  the  watch  of  his 
wit;  by  and  by  it  will  strike.  .  .  .  Fie,  what  a 

spendthrift  is  he  of  his  tongue. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

January  3» 

The  truth  you  speak  doth  lack  some  gentle- 
ness, 

And  time  to  speak  it  in:    you  rub  the  sore, 
When  you  should  bring  the  plaster. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 
January  4* 
Full  many  a  lady 
I  have  eyed  with  best  regard;    and  many  a 

time 
The   harmony   of    their    tongues   hath   into 

bondage 

Brought  my  too  diligent  ear;  for  several  vir- 
tues 

Have  I  liked  several  women :  never  any 
With  so  full  soul,  but  some  defect  in  her 
Did  quarrel  with  the  noblest  grace  she  owed, 
And  put  it  to  the  foil :  but  you,  O  you, 
10 


Gbe  tempest. 

So  perfect,  and  so  peerless,  are  created 

Of  every  creature's  best. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

January  5* 

It  is  foul  weather  in  us  all, 
When  you  are  cloudy. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 


MEN. 

While  you  here  do  snoring  lie, 
Open-eyed  conspiracy 

His  time  doth  take: 
If  of  life  you  keep  a  care, 
Shake  off  slumber,  and^beware: 
Awake  !    Awake  ! 

Act  //,  Sc.  a. 

WOMEN. 
Consider,  .  .  . 

The  beauty  of  his  daughter  ;  he  himself 
Calls  her  a  nonpareil. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

January  7, 

MEN. 

Wisely,  good  sir,  weigh 
Our  sorrow  with  our  comfort. 

Act  III,  Sc.  9. 

ii 


gentlemen  of  HJerona. 
WOMEN. 

Admired  Miranda! 
Indeed  the  top  of  admiration ;  worth 
What's  dearest  to  the  world!     Full   many  a 

lady 
1  have  eyed  with  best  regard;  and  many  a 

time 

The  harmony  of  their  tongues  hath  into  bond- 
age 

Brought  my  too  diligent  ear ;  for  several  virtues 
Have  I  liked  several  women;  never  any 
With  so  full  soul,  but  some  defect  in  her 
Did  quarrel  with  the  noblest  grace  she  owed, 
And  put  it  to  the  foil:  but  you,  O  you, 
So  perfect,  and  so  peerless,  are  created 
Of  every  creature's  best. 

Actlll,  Sc.i. 

ttwo  Gentlemen  of  Verona. 

3anuat£  8. 

MEN. 

He  cannot  be  a  perfect  man, 
Not  being  tried,  and  tutor'd  in  the  world ; 
Experience  is  by  industry  achieved, 
And  perfected  by  the  swift  course  of  time. 

Act  I,  Sc.j. 

12 


Uwo  Gentlemen  of  Derona. 
WOMEN. 

Maids,  in  modesty,  say  no  to  that 
Which  they  would  have  the  profferer  construe 

ay. 

Fie,  fie!  how  wayward  is  this  foolish  love, 
That,    like   a    testy   babe,  will    scratch   the 

nurse, 

And  presently,  all  humbled,  kiss  the  rod! 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

January  0* 
MEN. 

Hearken,  sir;  though  the  cameleon  Love  can 
feed  on  the  air,  I  am  one  that  am  nourished 
by  my  victuals,  and  would  fain  have  meat. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

'  Is  she  not  a  heavenly  saint?1 
'  No;  but  she  is  an  earthly  paragon.' 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

January  10. 
MEN. 

Hope  is  a  lover's  staff;  walk  hence  with  that, 
And  manage  it  against  despairing  thoughts. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

13 


Gentlemen  of  tflerona* 

WOMEN. 

She  is  mine  own  ; 

And  I  as  rich  in  having  such  a  jewel 
As  twenty  seas,  if  all  their  sand  were  pearl, 
The  water  nectar,  and  the  rocks  pure  gold. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

SanuatB  u. 

MEN. 

His  words  are  bonds,  his  oaths  are  oracles  ; 
His  love  sincere,  his  thoughts  immaculate; 
His  tears,  pure  messengers  sent  from  his 

heart  ; 
His  heart  as  far  from  fraud  as  heaven  from 

earth. 

Act  //,  Sc.  ?. 

WOMEN. 

Win  her  with  gifts,  if  she  respect  not  words  ; 
Dumb  jewels  often,  in  their  silent  kind, 
More  than  quick  words,  do  move  a  woman's 

mind. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 


12* 

MEN. 

You   have  an  exchequer  of  words,  and,  I 
think,  no  other  treasure  to  give  your  follow- 

14 


Gentlemen  ot  Derona. 

ers ;  for  it  appears  by  their  bare  liveries,  that 

they  live  by  your  bare  words. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Of  many  good  I  think  him  best.  ...  I  have 
no  other  but  a  woman's  reason ;  I  think  him 
so, — because  I  think  him  so. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

January  13, 

MEN. 

I  know  the  gentleman 
To  be  of  worth,  and  worthy  estimation, 
And  not  withoutTdesert  so  well  reputed. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

He  after  honor  hunts,  I  after  love : 
He  leaves  his  friends  to  dignify  them  more: 
I  leave  myself,  my  friends,  and  all  for  love. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

January  14. 

MEN. 

His  years  but  young,  but  his  experience  old ; 
His  head  unmellow'd,  but  his  judgment  ripe; 
And  in  a  word  .... 


<5entlemen  of  tDerona. 

He  is  complete  in  feature  and  in  mind, 
With  all  good  grace  to  grace  a  gentleman. 

Act  II,  Sc.  4. 
WOMEN. 

What  is  she, 
That  all  our  swains  commend  her? 

Holy,  fair,  and  wise  is  she, 
The  heaven  such  grace  did  lend  her, 
That  she  might  admired  be. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  a. 

Sanuarg  15. 

MEN. 

Cease  to  lament  for  that  thou  canst  not  help, 
And  study  help  for  that  which  thou  lament'st. 
Time  is  the  nurse  and  breeder  of  all  good. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 
WOMEN. 

A  virtuous  gentlewoman,  mild  and  beautiful. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 
Sanuarg  16. 

MEN. 

O,  heaven !  were  man 

But  constant,  he  were  perfect ;  that  one  error 
Fills  him  with  faults ;  makes  him  run  through 

all  the  sins, 

Act  V,  Sc.  4. 

16 


(Bentlemen  of  Derona. 
WOMEN. 

O,  'tis  the  curse  in  love,  and  still  approved, 
When   women  cannot  love  where  they're  be- 
loved. 

Act  F,  Sc.  4. 

January  17. 

MEN. 

Unheedful  vows  may  heedf ully  be  broken ; 
And  he  wants  wit  that  wants  resolved  will 
To  learn  his  wit  to  exchange   the  bad  for 
better. 

Act.  77,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

She  excels  each  mortal  thing, 

Upon  the  dull  earth  dwelling ; 
To  her  let  us  garlands  bring. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  *. 


MEN. 

Slander.  .  .  . 

'Tis  an  ill  office  for  a  gentleman  ; 
Especially,  against  his  very  friend. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
17 


Gentlemen  of  Werona. 

WOMEN. 

Is  she  kind  as  she  is  fair  ? 
For  beauty  lives  with  kindness. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 

3-anuatE  19, 
MEN. 

I  reckon  this  always  —  that  a  man  is  never 
undone  till  he  be  hanged  ;  nor  never  welcome 
to  a  place  till  some  certain  shot  be  paid,  and 

the  hostess  say,  Welcome. 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

"  Say  .  .  .  wouldst  thou  counsel   me  to  fall 

in  love  ?  ' 
"  Ay,  madam  ;  so  you   stumble   not   unheed- 

fully." 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 


20* 

MEN. 

The  man  that  hath  a  tongue,  I  say,  is  no  man, 
If  with  his  tongue  he  cannot  win  a  woman. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  i. 
18 


Gentlemen  of  Derona* 

WOMEN. 

A  woman  sometimes  scorns  what  best  contents 

her: 

....  Scorn  at  first  makes  after-love  the  more. 
If  she  do  frown,  'tis  not  in  hate  of  you  ; 
If  she  do  chide,  'tis  not  to  have  you  gone  ; 
For  get  you  gone,  she  doth  not  mean  away  ! 
Flatter,    and    praise,    commend,   extol   their 

graces  : 
Though  ne'er  so  black,  say  they  have  angels' 

faces. 

Act  III,  Sc.i. 

•January  21. 

MEN. 

Truth  hath  better  deeds  than  words  to  grace  it. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

To  be  slow  in  words  is  a  woman's.  .  .  .  virtue. 

Act  HI,  Sc.  i. 


22, 

MEN. 

"  How  know  you  that  I  am  in  love  ?  ' 

"  Marry,  by  these  special  marks  :  first,  you 


Gentlemen  of  Derona* 

have  learned  to  relish  a  love-song  like  a  robin- 
redbreast  ;  to  walk  alone  like  one  that  has  the 
pestilence ;  to  sigh  like  a  school-boy  that  has 
lost  his  A  B  C ;  to  fast,  like  one  that  takes 
diet ;  to  watch  like  one  that  fears  robbing. 
You  were  wont,  when  you  laughed,  to  crow 
like  a  cock ;  when  you  walked,  to  walk  like 
one  of  the  lions  ;  when  you  fasted,  it  was  pres- 
ently after  dinner ;  when  you  looked  sadly,  it 
was  for  want  of  money ;  and  now  you  are  met- 
amorphosed with  a  mistress." 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Her  beauty  is  exquisite,  but  her  favor  infinite. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

January  23. 

MEN. 

We  cite  our  faults, 

That  they  may  hold  excused  our  lawless  lives. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

O,  know'st  thou  not  his  looks  are  my  souFs 

food? 

Pity  the  dearth  that  I  have  pined  in, 
20 


of  ;6rror0. 

By  longing  for  that  food  so  long  a  time. 
Didst  thou  but  know  the  inly  touch  of  love, 
Thou   wouldst  as   soon  go   kindle  fire  with 

snow, 

As  seek  to  quench  the  fire  of  love  with  words. 

Act  II,  Sc.  7. 

SanuatB  24* 

MEN. 

Fire  that's  closest  kept  burns  most  of  all.  .  .  . 
O,  they  love  least  that  let  men  know  their 

love. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

She  hath  taught  her  suitor, 
He  being  her  pupil,  to  become  her  tutor, 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 

Comcfty  of  £rroc0. 

January  25. 

MEN. 

Learn,  sir,  to  jest  in  good  time. 
There's  a  time  for  all  things. 

Act  IIt  Sc.  2. 

21 


ot  Errors. 

WOMEN. 

The  time  was  once,  when  thou  unurged  wouldst 

vow 

That  never  words  were  music  to  thine  ear, 
That  never  object  pleasing  in  thine  eye, 
That  never  touch  well-welcome  to  thy  hand, 
That  never  meat  sweet-savor'd  in  thy  taste, 
Unless  I  spake,  or  look'd,  or  touch'd,  or  carved 

to  thee. 
How  comes  it  now,  my  husband,  oh  how  comes 

it, 
That  thou  art  thus  estranged  ? 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

January  26. 
MEN. 

Time  is  a  very  bankrupt,  and  owes  more  than 

he's  worth  to  reason. 
Nay,  he's  a   thief  too  ;  have   you  not  heard 

men  say, 
That  Time  comes  stealing  on  by  night  and 

day  ?  .  .  .  . 
There's  no  Time  for  a  man  to  recover  his  hair, 

that  grows  old  by  nature. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

22 


of  Errors. 

WOMEN. 

Of  excellent  discourse  : 
Pretty  and  witty  :  wild,  and  yet  too,  gentle. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

27. 


MEN. 

A  mere  anatomy  .... 

A  needy,  hollow-eyed,  sharp-looking  wretch, 

A  living  dead  man. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

The  venom  clamors  of  a  jealous  woman 
Poison  more  deadly  than  a  mad  dog's  tooth. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  i. 

January  28. 

MEN. 

One   whose  hard  heart  is  button'd  up  with 

steel  : 

A  wolf,  nay,  worse,  —  a  fellow  all  in  buff  ;  .  .  . 
A  back-friend,  a  shoulder-clapper. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 
23 


ot 

WOMEN. 

Alas,  poor  women  !  make  us  but  believe, 
Being  compact  of  credit,  that  you  love  us ; 
Though   others  have  the  arm,  show  us   the 

sleeve  ; 
We  in  your  motion  turn,  and  you  may  move 

us. 

Act  III \  Sc.  2. 

January  20* 
MEN. 

Slander  lives  upon  succession ; 
For  ever  housed  where  it  gets  possession. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Sweet  mistress,  (what  your  name   is  else,  I 

know  not) 
Less,  in  your  knowledge  and  your  grace,  you 

show  not, 
Thou  our  earth's  wonder;   more  than  earth 

divine, 
Teach  me,  dear  creature,  how  to  think  and 

speak. 

Act  IIIt  Sc.  2. 


ot  ;6rror0. 

January  30. 

MEN. 

V 

A  man  is  master  of  his  liberty  ; 

Time  is  their  master ;  and,  when  they  see  time, 

They'll  go,  or  come. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Her  fair  sister, 

Possessed  with  such  a  gentle  sovereign  grace, 
Of  such  enchanting  presence  and  discourse, 
Hath  almost  made  me  traitor  to  myself. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

January  31. 

MEN. 

There's  nothing  situate  under  heaven's  eye 
But  hath  his  bound,  in  earth,  in  sea,  in  sky : 
The  beasts,  the  fishes,  and  the  winged  fowls, 
Are   their  males'  subjects,  and  at  their  con- 
trols : 

Men,  more  divine,  the  masters  of  all  these, 
Lords  of  the  wide  world,  and  wild  watery  seas, 
Of  more  pre-eminence  than  fish  and  fowls, 
Are  masters  to  their  females,  and  their  lords. 

Act  Ht  Sc.  jr. 


ot  3Srror0. 

WOMEN. 

Thou  art  an  elm,  my  husband,  I,  a  vine ; 
Whose   weakness,   married   to    thy   stronger 

state, 

Makes  me  with  thy  strength  to  communicate  ; 
If  aught  possess  thee  from  me,  it  is  dross  ; 
Usurping  ivy,  brier,  or  idle  moss. 

Act  If,  Sc.  2. 


Gbe  flfcertsTIGlfvcs  ot  TDdtn&sor. 
for  /flbeasure. 


Uberc  is  a  fttnfc  of  character  In  tb^  We 
Ubat,  to  tbe  observer,  fcotb  tl)^  bfstor^ 
jfullc  unfold. 

Measure  for  Measure.    A  ct  I,  Sc.  i. 


<Ibe  flfcern?  Wives  of  TOnfcsor* 
jFebruarg  1* 
MEN. 

They  say,  if  money  go  before,  all  ways  do  lie 
open. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  know   the  young  gentlewoman  :  she  has 
good  gifts  ....  Seven  hundred  pounds  and 

possibilities. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 


2* 

MEN. 

An  honest,  willing,  kind  fellow  ....  no 
tell-tale,  nor  no  breed-bate  :  his  worst  fault 
is  ....  he  is  something  peevish  ;  but  no- 

body but  has  his  fault. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  pretty,  and  honest,  and  gentle  j  and 
one  that  is  your  friend. 

Actlt  Sc.  4. 
28 


dfcetts  TOves  of  TOnfcsot. 


MEN. 

He  hath  but  a  little  wee  face,  with  a  little 
yellow  beard  ;  a  Cain-colored  beard. 

/,  Sc.  4. 


WOMEN. 

The  warrant  of  womanhood,  and  the  witness 
of  a  good  conscience. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 


MEN. 

Wit   may   be  made  a  Jack-a-lent,  when  'tis 
upon  ill  employment. 

Act  F,  Sc.  5. 

WOMEN. 

Go  you,  and  where  you  find  a  maid, 
That,  ere  she  sleep,   has   thrice  her  prayers 

said, 

Raise  up  the  organs  of  her  fantasy, 
Sleep  she  as  sound  as  careless  infancy  ; 
But  those  that  sleep,  and  think  not  on  their  sins, 
Pinch  them,  arms,  legs,  backs,  shoulders,  sides, 

and  shins. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 
29 


of  Wtnteor. 
JebruatE  5* 

MEN. 

No  man  means   evil  but  the  devil,  and  we 
shall  know  him  by  his  horns. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Better  a  little  chiding  than  a  great  deal  of 
heart-break. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  3. 


6* 

MEN. 

You  are  a  gentleman  of  excellent  breeding, 
admirable  discourse,  of  great  admittance, 
authentic  in  your  place  and  person,  generally 
allowed  for  your  many  warlike,  courtlike,  and 

learned  preparations. 

Act  n,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Wooing  thee,  I  found  thee  of  more  value 
Than  stamps  in  gold,  or  sums  in  sealed  bags  ; 
And  'tis  the  very  riches  of  thyself. 

That  now  I  aim  at. 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

3° 


flfceasure  for 

ff ebtuatB  7. 

MEN. 

A  man  may  be  too  confident. 

Act  77,  S<r.  /. 

WOMEN. 

A  kind  heart  he  hath :  a  woman  would  run 
through  fire  and  water  for  such  a  kind  heart. 

Act  HI,  Sc.  4. 

Measure  fox  Measure. 

ffebruatB  8* 
MEN. 

Thyself  and  thy  belongings 
Are  not  thine  own  so  proper,  as  to  waste 
Thyself  upon  thy  virtues,  they  on  thee. 
Heaven  doth  with  us  as  we  with  torches  do ; 
Not   light   them   for   themselves:  for   if  our 

virtues 

Did  not  go  forth  of  us,  'twere  all  alike 
As  if  we  had  them  not.     Spirits  are  not  finely 

touch'd 
But  to  fine  issues. 

Act  I,  Sc.i. 


/fceasure  for  Measure. 

WOMEN. 

In  her  youth 
There  is  a  prone  and  speechless  dialect, 

Such  as  moves  men. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

jfebtuars  9, 
MEN. 

Good  counsellors   lack  no  clients  :  though 
you  change  your  place,  you  need  not  change 

your  trade. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

She  hath  prosperous  art 
When  she  will  play  with  reason  and  discourse, 

And  well  she  can  persuade. 

Act  I.  Sc.2. 

Jfebruarg  10. 

MEN. 

How  would  you  be, 

If  He,  which  is  the  top  of  judgment,  should 
But  judge  you  as  you  are  ?     O,  think  on  that ; 
And  mercy  then  will  breathe  within  your  lips, 

Like  man  new  made. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

3* 


/T&eagute  for  tf&easure* 

WOMEN. 

When  maidens  sue, 
Men  give  like  gods ;  but  when  they  weep  and 

kneel, 

All  their  petitions  are  as  freely  theirs 
As  they  themselves  would  owe  them. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

ffebruarE  ti. 

MEN. 

O,  it  is  excellent 
To  have  a  giant's  strength  ;  but  it  is  tyrannous 

To  use  it  like  a  giant. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

The  hand  that  hath  made  you  fair  hath 
made  you  good  ;  the  goodness  that  is  cheap  in 
beauty,  makes  beauty  brief  in  goodness  ;  but 
grace  being  the  soul  of  your  complexion,  should 

keep  the  body  of  it  ever  fair. 

ActllL.  Sc.i. 

ffebruatE  12* 

MEN. 

Our  doubts  are  traitors, 
And  make  us  lose  the  good  we  oft  might  win, 

By  fearing  to  attempt. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

3  33 


Measure  for  /Hbeasuve, 

WOMEN. 

It  oft  falls  out, 
To  have  what  we  would  have,  we  speak  not 

what  we  mean  : 

I  sometimes  do  excuse  the  thing  I  hate, 
For  his  advantage  that  I  dearly  love. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 


13. 

MEN. 

Could  great  men  thunder 
As  Jove   himself  does,   Jove  would  ne'er  be 

quiet, 

For  every  pelting,  petty  officer 
Would  use  his  heaven  for  thunder:  nothing 
but  thunder. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

True  prayers, 

That  shall  be  up  at  heaven,  and  enter  there, 
Ere   sunrise;  prayers   from   preserved   souls, 
From  fasting  maids,  whose  minds  are  dedicate 
to  nothing  temporal. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 
34 


Measure  for  Measure. 

jfebmarg  14. 

MEN. 

I  love  the  people, 

But  do  not  like  to  stage  me  to  their  eyes  : 
Though  it  do  well,  I  do  not  relish  well 
Their  loud  applause,  and  aves  vehement  ; 
Nor  do  I  think  the  man  of  safe  discretion 

That  does  affect  it. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

I  hold  you  as  a  thing  enskied,  and  sainted  :  . 
And  to  be  talk'd  with  in  sincerity, 
As  with  a  saint. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 


15. 

MEN. 

'Tis  one  thing  to  be  tempted,  .  .  . 
Another  thing  to  fall. 

Act  II,  Sc.i. 

WOMEN. 

Be  that  you  are, 

That  is,  a   woman  ;  if  you  be  more,  you're 
none; 

35 


Measure  for  /Ifceasute* 

If  you  be  one,  (as  you  are  well  expressed 
By  all  external  warrants,)  show  it  now. 

Act  //,  6V.  4. 

ffebruarg  16* 

MEN. 

Man,  proud  man  ! 
Dress'd  in  a  little  brief  authority  ; 
Most  ignorant  of  what  he's  most  assured, 
His  glassy  essence,  like  an  angry  ape, 
Plays  such  fantastic  tricks  before  high  Heaven, 
As  make  the  angels  weep. 

Act  //,  Sc.  *. 

WOMEN. 

She  speaks,  and  'tis 
Such  sense,  that  my  sense  breeds  with  it. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 


17. 

MEN. 

Happy  thou  art  not  ; 
For  what   thou  hast  not,  still  thou  striv'st  to 

get; 
And  what  thou  hast,  forget  'st. 

Act  III.  Sc.  /. 
36 


Measure  for  Measure. 

WOMEN. 

Woman  !  —  Help  Heaven  !     Men  their  creation 

mar 
In  profiting  by  them.     Nay,  call  us  ten  times 

frail  ; 

For  we  are  soft  as  our  complexions  are, 
And  credulous  to  false  prints. 

Act  77,  Sc,  4. 


18* 

MEN. 

Virtue  is  bold,  and  goodness  never  fearful  : 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She,  having  the  truth  of  honor  in  her,  hath 
made   him   that  gracious  denial  which  he  is 

most  glad  to  receive. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 


MEN. 

O,  what  may  man  within  him  hide, 
Though  angel  on  the  outward  side  ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  a. 
37 


for  /l&easure, 

WOMEN. 
I  have  heard  of  this  lady,  and  good  words 

went  with  her  name. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 


20, 

MEN. 

He  who  the  sword  of  heaven  will  bear 
Should  be  as  holy  as  severe  ; 
Pattern  in  himself,  to  know, 
Grace  to  stand,  and  virtue  go  ; 
More  nor  less  to  others  paying. 
Than  by  self-offences  weighing. 
Shame  to  him,  whose  cruel  striking 
Kills  for  faults  of  his  own  liking  ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 
This  virtuous  maid 

Subdues  me  quite. 

Act  h,  Sc.  2. 

jfe&ruarg  21* 

MEN. 

Sirrah,  thou   art  said  to  have  a  stubborn  soul, 
That  apprehends  no  further  than  this  world, 

And  squar'st  thy  life  according. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

3* 


B  jflMfcsummet  Iftiabt's  Dream* 

WOMEN. 
Show  your  wisdom,  daughter,  in  your  close 

patience. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  HI. 

B  /flibsummct  "ttujbt's  Bream* 

22* 


MEN. 

To  say  the  truth,  reason  and  love  keep  little 

company  together  now-a-days. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

O  happy  fair  ! 
Your  eyes  are  lode-stars  ;  and  your  tongue's 

sweet  air 

More  tunable  than  lark  to  shepherd's  ear, 
When  wheat  is  green,  when  hawthorn  buds 

appear. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

Je&tuatB  23* 

MEN. 

Awake  the  pert  and  nimble  spirit  of  mirth  : 

Turn  melancholy  forth  to  funerals  ; 

The  pale  companion  is  not  for  our  pomp. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 
39 


a  dfclfcsummer  Bigbt's  Bream* 

WOMEN. 

In  the  modesty  of  fearful  duty 
I  read  as  much  as  from  the  rattling  tongue 
Of  saucy  and  audacious  eloquence. 
Love,  therefore,  and  tongue-tied  simplicity. 
In  least  speak  most,  to  my  capacity. 

Act  F,  Sc.  i. 


24* 

MEN. 

His  speech  was  like  a  tangled  chain  ;  noth- 
ing impaired,  but  all  disordered. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Be  advised,  fair  maid  : 
To  you  your  father  should  be  as  a  god. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

jfebruatB  25* 

MEN. 

A    good   moral  ...  it   is   not  enough    to 
speak,  but  to  speak  true. 

Act  yt  Sc.  /. 
40 


U  /Sfctosummcr  HfQbt's  Dream* 
WOMEN. 

We  cannot  fight  for  love,  as  man  may  do  : 
Wre  should  be  woo'd,  and  were  not  made  to  woo. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

JFebruarg  26. 

MEN. 

This  fellow  doth  not  stand  upon  points. 

.  .  .  He  knows  not  the  stop. 

Act  F,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

The  imperial  votaress  passed  on, 
In  maiden  meditation,  fancy-free. 
Yet  mark'd  I  where  the  bolt  of  Cupid  fell  : 
It  fell  upon  a  little  western  flower, 
Before   milk-white,  now    purple    with   love's 

wound, 
And  maidens  call  it  love-in-idleness. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 


27. 

MEN. 

The  country  proverb  known, 
That  every  man  should  take  his  own. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
4* 


B  dRtosummer  ibiQbVB  2) team* 

WOMEN. 

O,  when  she's  angry,  she  is  keen  and  shrewd ! 

.  .  .  And,  though  she  be  but  little,  she  is  fierce. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 


28* 

MEN. 

The  will  of  man  is  by  his  reason  sway'd. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

She  hath  blessed  and  attractive  eyes. 

How  came  her  eyes  so  bright  ? 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 


fl&arcfx 


/ftucb  Bfco  Bbout  Hotbfng, 
fcwelftb  TOgbt. 
fcove'0  Habour' 


®ot>  10  to  be  worsbippe&  ;  all  men  are  not  alike- 

^fwM  /J  </<?  -4  ^<w/  Nothing?.    A  ct  III,  Sc.  3. 


43 


/fcucb  BDo  Hbout  flotbing. 
flfcarcb  I* 

MEN. 

He  hath  borne  himself  beyond  the  promise 
of  his  age  ;  doing,  in  the  figure  of  a  lamb,  the 
feats  of  a  lion  ;  he  hath,  indeed,  better  bet- 
tered expectation. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

She  cannot  love, 
Nor  take  no  shape  nor  project  of  affection, 

She  is  so  self-endeared. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 


2, 

MEN. 

Silence  is  the  perfectest  herald  of  joy  :  I  were 
but  little  happy  if  I  could  say  how  much. 
Lady,  as  you  are  mine,  I  am  yours  :  I  give 
away  myself  for  you  and  dote  upon  the  ex- 
change. 

Act  II  t  Sc.  T. 

WOMEN. 

By  this  day  !  she's  a  fair  lady  : 

I  do  spy  some  marks  of  love  in  her. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

44 


flfcucb  2l&o  Bfcout  IRotbing. 
flfcarcb  3* 
MEN. 

God  hath  blessed  you  with  a  good  name ; 
to  be  a  well-favored  man  is  the  gift  of  fortune. 

Act  III,  St.  j. 

WOMEN. 

The  idea  of  her  life  shall  sweetly  creep 

Into  his  study  of  imagination  ; 

And  every  lovely  organ  of  her  life 

Shall  come  apparell'd  in  more  precious  habit, 

More  moving-delicate  and  full  of  life, 

Into  the  eye  and  prospect  of  his  soul. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

d&arcb  4. 

MEN. 

Manhood  is  melted  into  courtesies,  valor 
into  compliments,  and  men  are  only  turned 
into  tongue,  and  trim  ones  too. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

I  cannot  be  a  man  with  wishing,  therefore  1 
will  die  a  woman  with  grieving. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 
45 


/iftucb  Bdo  about 

jflBarcb  5. 
MEN. 

Friendship  is  constant  in  all  other  things, 
Save  in  the  office  and  affairs  of  love, 
Therefore,  all  hearts  in  love  use  their  own 

tongues ; 

Let  every  eye  negotiate  for  itself, 
And  trust  no  agent ;  for  beauty  is  a  witch 
Against  whose  charms  faith  melteth  .... 
This  is  an  accident  of  hourly  proof. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Can  virtue  hide  itself  ?  .  .  .  graces  will  ap- 
pear, and  there's  an  end. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

Jfcarcb  6* 

MEN. 

A  man  to  a  man  :  stuffed  with  all  honorable 
virtues.  .  .  It  is  so,  indeed ;  he  is  no  less  than 
a  stuffed  man  :  but  for  the  stuffing, — well,  we 
are  mortal. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 
46 


fl&ucb  B&o  Bbout  l&otbing. 
WOMEN. 

A  kind  overflow  of  kindness  :  there  are  no 
faces  truer  than  those  that  are  so  washed. 
How  much  better  is  it  to  weep  at  joy  than  to 

joy  at  weeping ! 

Act  I,  Sc.  /. 

fl&arcb  7. 

MEN. 

Who  is  his  companion  now  ?  He  hath  every 
month  a  new  sworn  brother.  ...  He  wears 
his  faith  but  as  the  fashion  of  his  hat ;  it  ever 

changes  with  the  next  block. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

What,  my  dear  Lady  Disdain  !  are  you  yet 

living  ? 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

fl&arcb  8. 

MEN. 

From  the  crown  of  his  head  to  the  sole  of 
his  foot,  he  is  all  mirth  :  he  hath  twice  or 
thrice  cut  Cupid's  bow-string,  and  the  little 
hangman  dare  not  shoot  at  him  ;  he  hath  a 
heart  as  sound  as  a  bell,  and  his  tongue  is  the 
47 


/fcucb  BDo  Bbout 

clapper,  for  what  his  heart  thinks  his  tongue 

speaks. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  had  rather  hear  my  dog  bark  at  a  crow, 

than  a  man  swear  he  loves  me. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 


9. 

MEN. 

I  do  much  wonder  that  one  man,  seeing 
how  much  another  man  is  a  fool  when  he  dedi- 
cates his  behaviors  to  love,  will,  after  he  hath 
laughed  at  such  shallow  follies  in  others,  be- 
come the  argument  of  his  own  scorn  by  falling 

in  love. 

Act  77,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

Sigh  no  more,  ladies,  sigh  no  more, 

Men  were  deceivers  ever, 
One  foot  in  sea  and  one  on  shore, 
To  one  thing  constant  never  : 
Then  sigh  not  so, 
But  let  them  go, 

And  be  you  blithe  and  fonny. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 
48 


/i&ucb  BDo  Bbout 

/foarcb  to, 

MEN. 

Men 

Can  counsel,  and  speak  comfort  to  that  grief, 
Which  they  themselves  not  feel ;  but,  tasting 

it, 

Their  counsel  turns  to  passion,  which  before 
Would  give  preceptial  medicine  to  rage, 
Fetter  strong  madness  in  a  silken  thread, 
Charm  ache  with  air  and  agony  with  words : 
No,  no ;  'tis  all  men's  office  to  speak  patience 
To  those  that  wring  under  the  load  of  sorrow, 
But  no  man's  virtue  nor  sufficiency 
To  be  so  moral  when  he  shall  endure 

The  like  himself. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She  speaks  poniards,  and  every  word  stabs. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 

/fearcb  It* 
MEN. 

There  was  never  yet  philosopher 
That  could  endure  the  toothache  patiently. 

Act  V,  Sc.  jr. 
4  49 


fl&ucb  BDo  Blxwt  flotbina* 
WOMEN. 

Methinks  she's  too  low  for  a  high  praise,  too 
brown  for  a  fair  praise,  and  too  little  for  a 
great  praise :  only  this  commendation  I  can 
afford  her,  that  were  she  other  than  she  is, 
she  were  unhandsome ;  and  being  no  other  but 

as  she  is,  I  do  not  like  her. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

Iftarcb  12, 
MEN. 

Dost  thou  think  I  care  for  a  satire  or  an 
epigram  ?  No  :  if  a  man  will  be  beaten  with 
brains,  a'  shall  wear  nothing  handsome  about 
him.  In  brief,  since  I  do  purpose  to  marry,  I 
will  think  nothing  to  any  purpose  that  the 
world  can  say  against  it ;  and  therefore  never 
flout  at  me  for  what  I  have  said  against  it ;  for 
man  is  a  giddy  thing,  and  this  is  my  con- 
clusion. 

Act  V,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

O  god  of  love !  I  know  he  doth  deserve 
As  much  as  may  be  yielded  to  a  man. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 
5° 


Swelftb 

jflfcatcb  13. 

MEN. 

To  be  generous,  guiltless,  and  of  free  dis- 
position, is  to  take  those  things  for  bird-bolts 
that  you  deem  cannon-bullets :  there  is  no 
slander  in  an  allowed  fool,  though  he  do  noth- 
ing but  rail ;  nor  no  railing  in  a  known  dis- 
creet man,  though  he  do  nothing  but  reprove. 

Act  I>  Sc.j. 

WOMEN. 

She  never  told  her  love, 
But  let  concealment,  like  a  worm  ij  the  bud, 
Feed  on   her  damask   cheek :  she   pined   in 

thought ; 

And,  with  a  green  and  yellow  melancholy, 
She  sat,  like  patience  on  a  monument, 

Smiling  at  grief. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

dftarcb  14. 

MEN. 

However  we  do  praise  ourselves, 
Our  fancies  are  more  giddy  and  unfirm, 
More  longing,  wavering,  sooner  lost  and  worn, 
Than  women's  are.  .  .  . 


Cwelttb 

Then  let  thy  love  be  younger  than  thyself, 
Or  thy  affection  cannot  hold  the  bent : 
For  women  are  as  roses  ;  whose  fair  flower, 
Being  once  displayed,  doth  fall  that  very  hour. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Let  still  the  woman  take 
An  elder  than  herself  ;  so  wears  she  to  him, 
So  sways  she  level  in  her  husband's  heart. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

dfcarcb  15* 

MEN. 

The  devil  a  puritan  that  he  is,  or  anything 
constantly  but  a  time-pleaser ;  an  affectioned 
ass,  that  cons  state  without  book,  and  utters  it 
by  great  swarths  :  the  best  persuaded  of  him- 
self, so  crammed,  as  he  thinks,  with  excellences, 
that  it  is  his  ground  of  faith  that  all  that  look 

on  him  love  him. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

A  lady  ...  of  many  accounted  beautiful.  .  . 
She  bore  a  mind  that  envy  could  not  but  call 

fair. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

5* 


trweittb 

jfl&arcb  16. 
MEN. 

Look  you  now,  he's  out  of  his  guard  already ; 
unless  you  laugh  and  minister  occasion  to  him, 
he  is  gagged.  I  protest,  I  take  these  wise 
men,  that  crow  so  at  these  set  kind  of  fools,  no 
better  than  the  fools'  zanies. 

Act  I,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

'Twill  endure  wind  and  weather. — 
Tis  beauty  truly  blent,  whose  red  and  white 
Nature's  own  sweet  and  cunning  hand  laid  on. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

fl&arcb  17. 
MEN. 

God  give  them  wisdom  that  have  it ;  and 
those  that  are  fools,  let  them  use  their  talents. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

9 

WOMEN. 

She'll  not  match  above  her  degree,  neither 
in  estate,  years,  nor  wit. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 
S3 


fcove's  labour's 

flfcarcb  18. 

MEN. 

Behaviour,  what  wert  thou, 
Till  this  man  show'd  thee  ?  and  what  art  thou 

now? 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Fair,  gentle,  sweet 
Your  wit  makes  wise  things  foolish:  .  .  .  your 

capacity 

Is  of  that  nature  that  to  your  huge  store 
Wise  things  seem  foolish   and  rich  things  but 

poor. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

d&arcb  19. 

MEN. 

He  draweth  out  the  thread  of  his  verbosity 
finer  than  the  staple  of  his  argument.  I  abhor 
such  fanatical  phantasimes  ;  such  insociable 
and  point-devise  companions;  such  rackers  of 
orthography,  as  to  speak  dout,  fine,  when  he 
should  say  doubt ;  det,  when  he  should  pro- 
nounce debt. 

Act  V,  Sc.  /. 

54 


labours  Host* 

WOMEN. 

Vouchsafe  to  show  the  sunshine  of  your  face. 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 

/foarcb  20* 

MEN. 

His  humour  is  lofty,  his  discourse  peremp- 
tory. .  .  his  eye  ambitious,  his  gait  majestical, 
and  his  general  behaviour  vain,  ridiculous, 
thrasonical.  He  is  too  picked,  too  spruce,  too 
affected,  too  odd,  as  it  were,  to  peregrinate, 

as  I  may  call  it. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  lady  wall'd  about  with  diamonds  ! 

Act  y,  Sc.  2. 

flbatcb  21. 

MEN. 

I  praise  God  for  you,  sir :  your  reasons  at 
dinner  have  been  sharp  and  sententious  ;  .  .  . 
witty  without  affection.  .  .  learned  without 
opinion,  and  strange  without  heresy. 

Act  V,  Sc.  /. 
55 


^Labour's  Zost. 

WOMEN. 

O  queen  of  queens  !  how  far  dost  thou  excel, 
No  thought  can  think,  nor  tongue  of  mortal 

tell. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 

flBarcb  22. 

MEN. 

These  earthly  godfathers   of  heaven's  lights 
That  give  a  name  to  every  fixed  star 
Have  no  more  profits  of  their  shining  nights 
Than  those  that  walk  and  wot  not  what  they 

are. 
Too  much  to  know  is   to  know  nought  but 

fame  ; 
And  every  godfather  can  give  a  name. 

Act  /,  Sc.  T. 

WOMEN. 
Where  fair   is   not,  praise   cannot   mend  th« 

brow. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  T. 

/fcarcb  23. 

MEN. 

Why,  all  delights  are  vain  ;  but  that  most  vain, 
Which  with  pain  purchased  doth  inherit  pain. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 
€6 


Xove's  ^labour's  ILost, 

WOMEN. 

My  beauty,  though  but  mean, 
Needs  not  the  painted  flourish  of  your  praise: 
Beauty  is  bought  by  judgment  of  the  eye, 
Not  utter'd  by  base  sale  of  chapmen's  tongues. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

dfcarcb  24. 

MEN. 

O,  a  most  dainty  man  ! 
To  see  him  walk  before  a  lady   and  to  bear 

her  fan  ! 

To  see  him  kiss  his  hand  !  .  .  . 
Ah,  heavens,  it  is  a  most  pathetical  nit ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

By  heaven,  that  thou  art  fair,  is  most  infalli- 
ble ;  true,  that  thou  art  beauteous ;  truth  itself, 
that  thou  art  lovely.  More  fairer  than  fair, 
beautiful  than  beauteous,  truer  than  truth  it- 
self. 

Act.  IV.  Sc.  i. 

jfl&arcb  25* 

MEN. 
This  is  the  ape  of  form,  monsieur  the  nice,  .  .  . 

.  .  .  The  ladies  call  him  sweet ; 
The  stairs,  as  he  treads  on  them,  kiss  his  feet : 
57 


Stove's  labour's  ILost. 

This  is  the  flower  that  smiles  on  every  one, 
To  show  his  teeth  as  white  as  whale's  bone. 

Act  y,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

White-handed  mistress,  one  sweet  word  with 

thee. 

Honey,  and  milk,  and  sugar ;  there  is  three. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

flfcarcb  26. 
MEN. 

This  fellow  pecks  up  wit  as  pigeons  peas, 
And  utters  it  again  when  God  doth  please  : 
He  is  wit's  pedler.  .  . 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Fair  ladies  mask'd  are  roses  in  their  bud ; 
Dismask'd,  their   damask   sweet  commixture 

shown, 

Are  angels  vailing  clouds,  or  roses  blown. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

jflfcarcb  27. 

MEN. 
They  have  been  at  a  great  feast  of  languages, 


love's  Xabour'0 

and  stolen  the  scraps. — O,  they  have  lived  long 

on  the  alms-basket  of  words  ! 

Act  F,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

He  made  her  melancholy,  sad,  and  heavy ; 
And  so  she  died  :  had  she  been  light,  like  you, 
Of  such  a  merry,  nimble,  stirring  spirit, 
She  might  ha7  been  a  grandam  ere  she  died  : 
And  so  may  you ;  for  a  light  heart  lives  long. 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 

flbarcb  28. 

MEN. 

A  man  of  sovereign  parts  .  .  . 
Nothing  becomes  him  ill  that  he  would  well. 
The  only  soil  of  his  fair  virtue's  gloss, 
If  virtue's  gloss  will  stain  with  any  soil, 
Is  a  sharp  wit  match'd  with  too  blunt  a  will ; 
Whose  edge  hath  power  to  cut,  whose  will  still 

wills 
It  should  none  spare  that   come  within   his 

power. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Be  now  as  prodigal  of  all  dear  grace 
As  Nature  was  in  making  graces  dear, 
59 


Xox>e'£  Xabouv's 

When  she  did  starve  the  general  world  beside, 
And  prodigally  gave  them  all  to  you. 

Act  If,  St.  7. 

dfcarcb  29, 

MEN. 
The   mind   shall   banquet,  though  the   body 

pine : 

Fat  paunches  have  lean  pates,  and  dainty  bits 
Make  rich  the  ribs,  but  bankrupt  quite  the 

wits. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 
If  she  be  made  of  white  and  red, 

Her  faults  will  ne'er  be  known, 
For  blushing  cheeks  by  faults  are  bred, 

And  fears  by  pale  white  shown  : 
Then  if  she  fear,  or  be  to  blame, 

By  this  you  shall  not  know, 
For  still  her  cheeks  possess  the  same 

Which  native  she  doth  owe. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

fl&arcb  30. 

MEN. 

A  man  in  all  the  world's  new  fashion  planted, 
That  hath  a  mint  of  phrases  in  his  brain ; 
60 


Move's  ^labour's  ILost* 

One  whom  the  music  of  his  own  vain  tongue 
Doth  ravish,  like  enchanting  harmony  ; 
A  man  of  complements,  whom  right  and  wrong 
Have  chose  as  umpire  of  their  mutiny. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  child  of  our  grandmother  Eve,  a  female  ; 
or,  for  thy  more  sweet  understanding,  a  woman. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

dfcarcb  31* 

MEN. 

Let  fame,  that  all  hunt  after  in  their  lives, 
Live  register'd  upon  our  brazen  tombs, 
And  then  grace  us  in  the  disgrace  of  death  ; 
When,  spite  of  cormorant  devouring  Time, 
The  endeavour  of  this  present  breath  may  buy 
That  honour,  which  shall  bate  his  scythe's  keen 

edge, 
And  make  us  heirs  of  all  eternity. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  maid  of  grace,  and  complete  majesty. 

Ac.  I,  Sc.  /. 


61 


lou  Xtfte  ft. 
jfl&etcbant  of  Wenfcc. 
B  mtntet'*  Gale. 


f  charge  sou,  ©  women,  for  tbc  love  gou  bear  to  men,  to 
lifce  ad  mucb  of  t  bese  plavs  as  please  vou  :  and  f  cbarge  sou, 
®  men,  for  tbe  love  sou  bear  to  women,  .  .  .  tbat  between  gou 
ano  tbe  women,  tbe  pla?  mas  please. 

As  You  Like  It.    Epilogue. 


Bs  12ou  3Ltfce  It* 

Bpril  I* 

MEN. 

As  a  walled  town  is  more  worthier  than  a 
village,  so  is  the  forehead  of  a  married  man 
more  honourable  than  the  bare  brow  of  a 
bachelor. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

A  woman's  thought  runs  before  her  actions. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  /. 

Bprii  2. 
MEN. 

Men  are  April  when  they  woo, 
December  when  they  wed. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Maids  are  May  when  they  are  maids,  but  the 
sky  changes  when  they  are  wives. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

Bpril  3. 

MEN. 

Is  he  of  God's  making  ?  What  manner  of 
man  ?  Is  his  head  worth  a  hat,  or  his  chin 
worth  a  beard  ? 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 
64 


1Tt, 

WOMEN. 

If  ladies  be  but  young  and  fair, 
They  have  the  gift  to  know  it. 

Act  II,  Sc.  7. 

Bprtl  4. 

MEN. 

He's  gentle ;  never  schooPd,  and  yet 
learned  ;  full  of  noble  device  ;  of  all  sorts  en- 

chantingly  beloved. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Cel.  Let  us  sit  and  mock  the  good  house- 
wife, Fortune,  from  her  wheel,  that  her  gifts 
may  henceforth  be  bestowed  equally. 

Ros.  I  would  we  could  do  so  ;  for  her  benefits 
are  mightly  misplaced  :  and  the  bountiful  blind 
woman  doth  most  mistake  in  her  gifts  to 
women. 

Cel.  'Tis  true  :  for  those  that  she  makes  fair 
she  scarce  makes  honest ;  and  those  that  she 
makes  honest  she  makes  very  ill-favouredly. 

fios.  Nay,  now  thou  goest  from  fortune's 
office  to  nature's  :  fortune  reigns  in  gifts  of  the 

world,  not  in  the  lineaments  of  nature. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 
5  65 


as  ll?ou  lifce  ft. 

2lprU  5. 

MEN. 

Always  the  dulness  of  the  fool  is  the  whet- 
stone of  the  wits. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

O,   how  full   of   briars    is    this    working-day 

world  ! 

They  are  but  burs.  ...  if  we  walk  not  in 
the  trodden  paths,  our  very  petticoats  will  catch 

them. 

Act  7,  Sc.  3. 

Bpril  0. 
MEN. 

Sweet  are  the  uses  of  adversity ; 
Which,  like  the  toad,  ugly  and  venomous, 
Wears  yet  a  precious  jewel  in  his  head ; 
And  this  our  life,  exempt  from  public  haunt, 
Finds  tongues  in  trees,  books  in  the  running 

brooks, 
Sermons  in  stones,  and  good  in  everything. 

.  .  .  Happy  is  your  grace, 
That  can  translate  the  stubbornness  of  fortune 
Into  so  quiet  and  so  sweet  a  style. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 
66 


H0  Uou  fcifcc  ft. 

WOMEN. 

Honesty  coupled  to  beauty,  is  to  have  honey 
a  sauce  to  sugar. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 


7. 

MEN. 

Have  the  grace  to  consider  that  tears  do  not 
become  a  man. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

And  your  experience  makes  you  sad  :  I  had 
rather  have  a  fool  to  make  me  merry,  than  ex- 
perience to  make  me  sad  ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  /. 

Bpril  8. 

MEN. 

Know  you  not,  master,  to  some  kind  of  men 
Their  graces  serve  them  but  as  enemies  ? 
No  more  do  yours  :  your  virtues,  gentle  master, 
Are  sanctified  and  holy  traitors  to  you. 
O,  what  a  world  is  this,  when  what  is  comely 

Invenoms  him  that  bears  it. 

Act  II,  Sc.j. 
67 


210  JJou  £ifte  1ft, 

WOMEN. 

She  is  apter  to  do  than  to  confess  she  does : 
that  is  one  of  the  points  in  the  which  women 
still  give  the  lie  to  their  conscience. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

Bprii  9. 

MEN. 

Since  the  little  wit  that  fools  have  was 
silenced,  the  little  foolery  that  wise  men  have 

makes  a  great  show. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Beauty  provoketh  thieves  sooner  than  gold. 

Act  7,  Sc.  3. 

Bpril  10 

MEN. 

We,  that  are  true  lovers,  run  into  strange 
capers  ;  but  as  all  is  mortal  in  nature,  so  is  all 

nature  in  love  mortal  in  folly. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

The  people  praise  her  for  her  virtues. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 
68 


xt fee  irt, 

Bpttl  11* 

MEN. 

Those  that  are  good  manners  at  the  court 
are  as  ridiculous  in  the  country,  as  the  be- 
haviour of  the  country  is  most  mockable  at  the 

court. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Carve  on  every  tree 

The  fair,  the  chaste,  and  unexpressive  she. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

Bpril  12. 
MEN. 

The  more  one  sickens  the  worse  at  ease  he 
is  ;  and  that  he  that  wants  money,  means,  and 
content,  is  without  three  good  friends. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Do  you  not  know  I  am  a  woman  .     When  I 

think,  I  must  speak. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
69 


ft*  Uou  Hike  Mi. 

Bpril  13. 

MEN. 

Blow,  blow,  thou  winter  wind, 
Thou  art  not  so  unkind 
As  man's  ingratitude ; 
Thy  tooth  is  not  so  keen, 
Because  thou  art  not  seen, 
Although  thy  breath  be  rude. 

Act  77,  Sc.  7. 

WOMEN. 

Make  the  doors  upon  a  woman's  wit,  and  it 
will  out  at  the  casement ;  shut  that,  and  'twill 
out  at  the  key-hole :  stop  that,  'twill  fly  with 
the  smoke  out  at  the  chimney. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

2lpril  H. 

MEN. 

O,  how  bitter  a  thing  it  is  to  look  into  hap- 
piness through  another  man's  eyes. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Time  travels  in  divers  paces  with  divers  per- 
sons. .  .  .  He  trots  hard  with  a  young  maid, 
between  the  contract  of  her  marriage  and  the 
70 


dftcrcbant  of  Venice* 

day  it  is  solemnized  :  if  the  interim  be  but  a 
se  'nnight,  Time's  pace  is  so  hard  that  it  seems 

the  length  of  seven  years. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

Bpill  15. 

MEN. 

Rich  honesty  dwells  like  a  miser,  sir,  in  a 
poor  house,  as  your  pearl  in  your  foul  oyster. 

Act  V,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

From  the  east  to  western  Ind, 
No  jewel  is  like  Rosalind. 
Her  worth,  being  mounted  on  the  wind 
Through  all  the  world  bears  Rosalind. 
All  the  pictures,  fairest  lined, 
Are  but  black  to  Rosalind. 
Let  no  face  be  kept  in  mind, 

But  the  face  of  Rosalind. 

Act  HI,  Sc.  2. 

Ube  flfcercbant  of  Venice. 


MEN. 

Now,  by  two-headed  Janus, 
Nature  hath   fram'd   strange   fellows   in  her 
time: 


dftercbant  of  litenfce. 

Some  that  will  evermore  peep  through  their 

eyes, 

And  laugh,  like  parrots  at  a  bagpiper; 
And  other  of  such  vinegar  aspect, 
That  they'll  not  show  their  teeth  in  way  of 

smile. 

Act  I,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  fair,  and,  fairer  than  that  word, 

Of  wondrous   virtues :   sometimes   from   her 

eyes 
I  did  receive  fair  speechless  messages. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

Bprtl  17. 
MEN. 

You  have  too  much  respect  upon  the  world  : 
They  lose  it,  that  do  buy  it  with  much  care  :  .  .  . 
Hold  the  world  but  as  the  world,  .  .  . 

A  stage,  where  every  man  must  play  a  part. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Her  sunny  locks 

Hang  on  her  temples  like  a  golden  fleece. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 

72 


/toercbaut  of  IDenice* 
Bpril  18. 

MEN. 

If  to  do  were  as  easy  as  to  know  what  were 
good  to  do,  chapels  had  been  churches,  and 
poor  men's  cottages  prince's  palaces.  It  is  a 
good  divine  that  follows  his  own  instructions  : 
I  can  easier  teach  twenty  what  were  good  to  be 
done,  than  be  one  of  the  twenty  to  follow  mine 
own  teaching.  The  brain  may  devise  laws  for 
the  blood ;  but  a  hot  temper  leaps  o'er  a  cold 
decree  ;  such  a  hare  is  madness,  the  youth,  to 
skip  o'er  the  meshes  of  good  counsel,  the 

cripple. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

While   we  shut   the  gate  upon  one  wooer, 

another  knocks  at  the  door. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

Bpril  19* 

MEN. 

Mark  you  this,  .  .  . 

The  devil  can  cite  Scripture  for  his  purpose. 
An  evil  soul,  producing  holy  witness, 
73 


flftercbant  of  Venice. 

Is  like  a  villain  with  a  smiling  cheek  ; 

A  goodly  apple  rotten  at  the  heart  : 

O,  what  a  goodly  outside  falsehood  hath  ! 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Let  me  give  light,  but  let  me  not  be  light, 
For  a  light  wife  doth  make  a  heavy  husband. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 


20, 

MEN. 

How  many  cowards,  whose  hearts  are  all  as 

false 

As  stairs  of  sand,  wear  yet  upon  their  chins 
The  beards  of  Hercules  and  frowning  Mars, 
Who,  inward  searched,  have  livers  white  as 

milk! 

And  these  assume  but  valour's  excrement, 
To  render  them  redoubted  ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  wise,  if  I  can  judge  of  her  ; 
And  fair  she  is,  if  that  mine  eyes  be  true  ; 
74 


dfcercbant  of  Wenice. 

And  true  she  is,  as  she  hath  proved  herself ; 
And  therefore,  like  herself,  wise,  fair,  and  true 
Shall  she  be  placed  in  my  constant  soul. 

Act  IJ,  Sc.  6. 

Bprll  21. 

MEN. 

The  man  that  hath  no  music  in  himself, 

Nor    is  not    moved    with   concord  of   sweet 

sounds, 

Is  fit  for  treasons,  stratagems,  and  spoils  ; 
The  motions  of  his  spirit  are  dull  as  night, 
And  his  affections  dark  as  Erebus  : 

Let  no  such  man  be  trusted. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Fair  ladies,  you  drop  manna  in  the  way 

Of  starved  people. 

Act  V,  Sc.  /. 

Bpttl  22. 

MEN. 

The  quality  of  mercy  is  not  strain'd ; 
It  droppeth  as  the  gentle  rain  from  heaven 
Upon  the  place  beneath  :  it  is  twice  bless'd  ; 
It    blesseth    him    that   gives,    and   him   that 
takes.  .  .  . 

75 


d&ercbant  of  Denfce. 

It  is  an  attribute  to  God  himself ; 
And    earthly   power   doth   then    show   likest 
God's 

When  mercy  seasons  justice. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  Jr. 

WOMEN. 

A  maiden  hath  no  tongue  but  thought 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

Bptil  23. 

MEN. 

The  dearest  friend  .  .  .  The  kindest  man, 
The  best-condition'd  and  unwearied  spirit 

In  doing  courtesies. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

'Tis  a  fair  hand  : 
And  whiter  than  the  paper  it  writ  on 

Is  the  fair  hand  that  writ. 

Act  II,  Sc.  4. 

Bprfl  24. 
MEN. 

I  am  married  to  a  wife, 

Which  is  dear  to  me  as  life  itself. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 
76 


H  Wntet'a 

WOMEN. 

For  myself  alone, 

I  would  not  be  ambitious  in  my  wish, 
To  wish  myself  much  better  ;  yet  for  you 
I  would  be  trebled  twenty  times  myself ; 
A   thousand   times   more  fair,  ten   thousand 

times  more  rich  ; 

That  only  to  stand  high  in  your  account, 
I  might  in  virtues,  beauties,  livings,  friends, 
Exceed  account :  but  the  full  sum  of  me 
Is  sum  of  nothing  ;  which,  to  term  in  gross, 
Is  an  unlesson'd  girl,  unschooPd,  unpractised  : 
Happy  in  this,  she  is  not  yet  so  old 
But  she  may  learn  ;  then  happier  in  this, 
She  is  not  bred  so  dull  but  she  can  learn  ; 
Happiest  of  all,  is  that  her  gentle  spirit 
Commits  itself  to  yours  to  be  directed, 

As  from  her  lord,  her  governor,  her  king. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

H  T£ltntcrfs  Ualc. 

Hprtl  25, 

MEN. 

Prosperity's  the  very  bond  of  love. 

Act  IV.  Sct  j. 
77 


B  Winters  Calc. 

WOMEN. 

What  you  do 

Still  betters  what  is  done.    When  you  speak, 

sweet, 

I'd  have  you  do  it  ever  :  when  you  sing, 
I'd  have  you  buy  and  sell  so  ;  so  give  alms  ; 
Pray  so  :  and,  for  the  ordering  your  affairs, 
To  sing  them  too  :  When  you  do  dance,  I  wish 

you 

A  wave  o'  the  sea,  that  you  might  ever  do 
Nothing  but  that ;  move  still,  still  so 
And  own  no  other  function  :  each  your  doing, 
So  singular  in  each  particular, 
Crowns  what  you  are  doing  in  the  present 

deeds, 

That  all  your  acts  are  queens. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 

Bpril  26. 
MEN. 

How  sometimes  nature  will  betray  its  folly. 
Its  tenderness,  and  make  itself  a  pastime 
To  harder  bosoms  !     Looking  on  the  lines 
Of  my  boy's  face,  methought  I  did  recall 
Twenty-three    years,    and    saw    myself    un- 
breech'd, 

In  my  green  velvet  coat ;  my  dagger  muzzled, 
78 


B  TOnter>0  Cale. 

Lest  it  should  bite  its  master,  and  so  prove, 
As  ornaments  oft  do,  too  dangerous. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

She  was  as  tender 
As  infancy  and  grace. 

Act  y,  Sc.  3. 

Bprii  27. 

MEN. 

How  he  glisters 

Thorough  my  rust !  and  how  his  piety 
Does  my  deeds  make  the  blacker ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Alas  !  I  have  show'd  too  much 
The  rashness  of  a  woman. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

Bpril  28, 

MEN. 

I  may  be  negligent,  foolish,  and  fearful  : 
In  every  one  of  these  no  man  is  free, 
But  that  his  negligence,  his  folly,  fear, 
Amongst  the  infinite  doings  of  the  world, 
Sometimes  puts  forth. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

79 


B  Winter's  ttaie. 

WOMEN. 

A  lady's  verily  is 

As  potent  as  a  lord's. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

Bpril  29. 

MEN. 

Should  all  despair 
That  have  revolted  wives,  the  tenth  of  mankind 

Would  hang  themselves. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  cannot  say,  'tis  pity 
She  lacks  instructions  ;  for  she  seems  a  mistress 

To  most  that  teach. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 

Bpril  30. 

MEN. 

I  saw  his  heart  in  's  face. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WTOMEN. 

Cram  us  with  praise,  and  make  us 

As  fat  as  tame  things  :  one  good  deed  dying 

tongueless, 

80 


a  minter'8  Gale. 

Slaughters  a  thousand  waiting  upon  that. 
Our  praises  are  our  wages  :  you  may  ride  us, 
With  one  soft  kiss,  a  thousand  furlongs,  ere 
With  spur  we  heat  an  acre. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 


Gamins  of  Gbc  Sbrew* 
airs  imcii  Sbat  J6nDs  Well, 
fttna  Sobn. 

3Bc  great  in  act,  as  sou  bavc  been  in  tbouabt  ; 
...  So  sball  inferior  cses, 
Ubat  borrow  tbeir  bebaviours  from  tbe  great, 
(Brow  great  b$  $our  example,  an&  put  on 
Cbe  bauntlcss  spirit  of  resolution. 

King  John,  Act  V.  Sc.  I. 


{laming  of  tbe  Sbrew, 

dfcag  1. 
MEN. 

Melancholy  is  the  nurse  of  frenzy  : 
Therefore  .  .  .  hear  a  play, 
And  frame  your  mind  to  mirth  and  merriment, 
Which  bars  a  thousand  harms  and  lengthens 

life. 

Ind.  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  saw  sweet  beauty  in  her  face, 

...  I  saw  her  coral  lips  to  move, 

And  with  her  breath  she  did  perfume  the  air  : 

Sacred  and  sweet  was  all  1  saw  in  her. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 


2. 

MEN. 

Preposterous  ass,  that  never  read  so  far 
To  know  the  cause  why  music  was  ordain'd  ! 
Was  it  not  to  refresh  the  mind  of  man 
After  his  studies  or  his  usual  pain  ? 
Then  give  me  leave  to  read  philosophy, 
And  while  I  pause,  serve  in  your  harmony. 

*  Act  ///,  Sc.  /. 
84 


Earning  of  tbe  Sbrew. 

WOMEN. 

Till  the  tears  that  she  hath  shed  for  thee 
Like  envious  floods,  o'er-ran  her  lovely  face 
She  was  the  fairest  creature  in  the  world  ; 
And  yet  she  is  inferior  to  none. 

Ind.  Sc.  2. 


3. 
MEN. 

No  profit  grows  where  is  no  pleasure   ta'en  : 
In  brief,  sir,  study  what  you  most  affect. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Hearing  of  her  beauty  and  her  wit, 
Her  affability  and  bashful  modesty, 
Her  wondrous  qualities  and  mild  behaviour, 
I  am  bold  to  show  myself  a  forward  guest. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 


4, 

MEN. 

Use   your   manners  discreetly  in  all  kind  of 

companies. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

85 


of  tbe  Sbrew. 

WOMEN. 

A  woman  moved  is  like  a  fountain  troubled, 
Muddy,  ill-seeming,  thick,  bereft  of  beauty. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 


MEN. 

Methinks  he  looks  as  though  he  were  in  love. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 


WOMEN. 

Thy  husband  is  thy  lord,  thy  life,  thy  keeper, 
Thy  head,  thy  sovereign  ;  one  that  cares  for 

thee, 

And  for  thy  maintenance  commits  his  body 
To  painful  labour  both  by  sea  and  land  ; 
To  watch  the  night  in  storms,  the  day  in  cold, 
Whilst  thou  liest  warm  at  home,  secure  and 

safe; 

And  craves  no  other  tribute  at  thy  hands 
But  love,  fair  looks,  and  true  obedience, 
Too  little  payment  for  so  great  a  debt. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 
86 


of  tbc  Sbre\v, 

£fca£  6, 

MEN. 

'Tis  age  that  nourisheth, 
But  youth  in  ladies'  eyes  that  flourisheth. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Such  duty  as  the  subject  owes  the  prince 
Even  such  a  woman  oweth  to  her  husband  ; 
And  when  she's  froward,  peevish,  sullen,  sour, 
And  not  obedient  to  his  honest  will, 
What  is  she  but  a  foul  contending  rebel 
And  graceless  traitor  to  her  loving  lord. 
I  am  ashamed  that  woman  are  so  simple 
To  offer  war,   where  they  should  kneel  for 

peace, 

Or  seek  for  rule,  supremacy  and  sway, 
When  they  are  bound  to  serve,  love  and  obey. 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 


7. 

MEN. 

Tis  deeds  must  win  the  prize 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 


of  tbe  Sbrew. 

WOMEN. 

Young,   budding   virgin,    fair   and  fresh    and 

sweet,  .  .  . 

Happy  the  parents  of  so  fair  a  child  ; 
Happier  the  man,  whose  favourable  stars 
Allot  thee  for  his  lovely  bride. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j, 


8. 
MEN. 

Such  wind  as  scatters  young  men  through  the 

world 

To  seek  their  fortunes  farther  than  at  home, 
Where  small  experience  grows. 

Act  I.  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Thou  art  pleasant,  gamesome,  passing  courte- 

ous, 
But  slow  in  speech,  yet  sweet  as  spring-time 

flowers  : 
Thou  canst  not  frown,  thou  canst  not  look 

askance, 

Nor  bite  the  lip,  as  angry  wenches  will, 
Nor  hast  thou  pleasure  to  be  cross  in  talk, 
88 


Canting  of  tbe  Sbrew. 

But  thou  with  mildness  entertain'st  thy  wooers, 
With  gentle  conference,  soft  and  affable. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 


9. 

MEN. 

Why,  man,  there  be  good  fellows  in  the  world. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  not  froward,  but  modest  as  the  dove ; 
She's  not  hot,  but  temperate  as  the  morn. 

Act  77,  Sc  /. 


to. 

MEN. 

Even  in  these  honest  mean  habiliments  : 
Our  purses  shall  be  proud,  our  garments  poor; 
For  'tis  the  mind  that  makes  the  body  rich ; 
And  as  the  sun  breaks  through  the  darkest 

clouds, 

So  honour  peereth  in  the  meanest  habit. 
What,  is  the  jay  more  precious  than  the  lark, 
Because  his  feathers  are  more  beautiful  ? 

Act  IVt  Sc.  j. 
89 


airs  'mcll  Ebat  Bnfcs 

WOMEN. 

Kindness  in  women,  net  their  beauteous  looks, 
Shall  win  my  love. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 


MEN. 

I  am  as  peremptory  as  she  proud-minded  ; 
And  where  two  raging  fires  meet  together, 
They  do  consume  the  thing  that  feeds  their 

fury  : 

Though  little  fire  grows  great  with  little  wind, 
Yet  extreme  gusts  will  blow  out  fire  and  all  : 
So  I  to  her,  and  so  she  yields  to  me. 

Act  II,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

She  sings  as  sweetly  as  a  nightingale  : 

.  .  .  She  looks  as  clear 
As  morning  roses  newly  wash'd  with  dew. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

HU's  TOlell  Ubat  £nt>0  lllcll. 

Aag  12, 

MEN. 

Moderate   lamentation  is  the  right  of  the 
dead,  excessive  grief  the  enemy  to  the  living. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

9° 


2Ul's  Mell  Gbat  BnDs  Well* 

WOMEN. 

It  were  all  one, 

That  I  should  love  a  bright  particular  star, 
And  think  to  wed  it,  he  is  so  above  me  : 
In  his  bright  radiance  and  collateral  light 
Must  I  be  comforted,  not  in  his  sphere. 
The  ambition  in  my  love  thus  plagues  itself  : 
The  hind  that  would  be  mated  by  the  lion 
Must  die  for  love. 

Act  I,  Sc.  /. 


13. 

MEN. 

He  is  very  great  in  knowledge,  and  accord- 
ingly valiant. 

Act  II,  Sc.  5. 


WOMEN. 

What  her  is  this  ? 
Why,  Doctor  She.  .  .  . 
.  .  .  Her  sex,  her  years,  profession, 
Wisdom,  and  constancy,  hath  arranged  me. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

91 


ail's  Well  Gbat  JEnDa  "Ullell. 


MEN. 

Most  it  is  presumption  in  us,  when 
The  help  of  Heaven  we  count  the  act  of  men. 

Act  77,  Sc.  z. 

WOMEN. 

Methinks,  in  thee  some  blessed  spirit  doth 

speak  : 

His  powerful  sound  within  an  organ  weak  ; 
And  what  impossibility  would  slay 
In  common  sense,  sense  saves  another  way. 
Thy  life  is  dear  ;  for  all,  that  life  can  rate 
Worth  name  of  life,  in  thee  hath  estimate  : 
Youth,  beauty,  wisdom,  courage,  all 
That  happiness  and  prime  can  happy  call. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 


MEN. 

Many  a  man's  tongue  shakes  out  his  mas- 
ter's undoing. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 
92 


BU's  mell  Ebat  Bute 

WOMEN. 

Time  will  bring  on  summer, 
When    briars    shall    have    leaves    as   well   as 

thorns, 
And  be  as  sweet  as  sharp. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 


10, 
MEN. 

They  say,  miracles  are  past  ;  and  we  have 
our  philosophical  persons,  to  make  modern 
and  familiar,  things  supernatural  and  causeless. 
Hence  is  it  that  we  make  trifles  of  terrors  ;  en- 
sconcing ourselves  into  seeming  knowledge, 
when  we  should  submit  ourselves  to  an  un- 
known fear. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Fair  maid,  send  forth  thine  eye  :  this  youthful 

parcel 
Of  noble  bachelors  stand  at  my  bestowing 

.  .  .  thy  frank  election  make  ; 
Thou  hast  power  to  choose. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 
93 


Bira  TKlcll  Gbat  JSnds  "UHcll. 
.flfoaE  17* 
MEN. 

Love  is  holy  ; 

And  my  integrity  ne'er  knew  the  crafts 
That  you  do  charge  men  with. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  love  him  for  his  sake  ; 
And  yet  I  know  him  a  notorious  liar, 
Think  him  a  great  way  fool,  solely  a  coward  ; 
Yet  these  fix'd  evils  sit  so  fit  in  him, 
That   they  take  place,  when  virtue's   steely 

bones 
Look  bleak  i'  the  cold  wind  ;  withal,  full  oft 

we  see 

Cold  wisdom  waiting  on  superfluous  folly. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 


18* 

MEN. 

'Tis  not  the  many  oaths  that  make  the  truth 
But  the  plain  single  vow,  that  is  vow'd  true. 

Act  IV,  Sc  z. 
94 


&li's  TKftell  Sbat  £ndd  Well. 
WOMEN. 

Fair  soul, 

In  your  fine  frame  hath  love  no  quality  ? 
If  the  quick  fire  of  youth  light  not  your  mind, 
You  are  no  maiden,  but  a  monument : 
When  you  are  dead,  you  should  be  such  a  one 
As  you  are  now,  for  you  are  cold  and  stern. 

Act  IV,  Sc.2. 


MEN. 

Like  a  courtier,  contempt  nor  bitterness 
Were  in  his  pride  or  sharpness ;  if  they  were, 
His  equal  had  awaked  them  ;  and  his  honour, 
Clock  to  itself,  knew  the  true  minute  when 
Exception  bid  him  speak,  and  at  this  time 
His  tongue  obeyed  his  hand  :  who  were  below 

him 

He  used  as  creatures  of  another  place ; 
And  bow'd  his  eminent  top  to  their  low  ranks, 
Making  them  proud  of  his  humility, 
In  their  poor  praise  he  humbled.    Such  a  man 
Might  be  a  copy  to  these  younger  times. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 
95 


BU's  Mell  tTbat  &nte  Welt. 

WOMEN. 

She  herself,  without   other  advantage,  may 
lawfully  make  title  to  as  much  love   as  she 

finds. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 


20. 

•  MEN. 

Let  me  not  live,  .  .  . 
After  my  flame  lacks  oil,  to  be  the  snuff 
Of  younger  spirits,  whose  apprehensive  senses 
All  but  new  things  disdain  ;  whose  judgments 

are 
Mere  fathers   of  their  garments  ;  whose  con- 

stancies 

Expire  before  their  fashions. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

It  hurts  not  him 
That  he  is  loved  of  me  :  .  .  . 
Nor  would  I  have  him,  till  I  do  deserve  him  ; 
Yet  never  know  how  that  desert  should  be. 
I  know  I  love  in  vain,  strive  against  hope  ; 
Yet,  in  this  captious  and  intenible  sieve, 
I  still  pour  in  the  waters  of  my  love, 
And  lack  not  to  lose  still.    Thus,  Indian-like, 


air*  men  Gbat  JEHOS  men. 

Religious  in  mine  error,  I  adore 

The  sun,  that  looks  upon  his  worshipper, 

But  knows  of  him  no  more. 

Act  I,  Sc.  3. 


21. 

MEN. 

Truly,  if  God  have  lent  a  man  any  manners, 
he  may  easily  put  it  off  at  court. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  play  the  noble  housewife  with  the  time 
To  entertain  't  so  merrily  with  a  fool. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

/bag  22. 

MEN. 
Sirrah,  I  write  man  ;  to  which  title  age  can- 

not bring  thee. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  young,  wise,  fair; 
In  these  to  nature  she's  immediate  heir  ; 
And   these   breed   honour:   that  is  honour's 

scorn, 

7  97 


BIP0  mell  Gbat  Bn&s  melt. 

Which  challenges  itself  as  honour's  born, 
And  is  not  like  the  sire  :  honours  thrive, 
When  rather  from  our  acts  we  them  derive 
Than  our  fore-goers. 

.  .  .  Virtue  and  she, 
Is  her  own  dower. 

Act  If,  Sc.  j. 

/bag  23* 

MEN. 

How  mightily,  sometimes,  we  make  us  com- 
fort of  our  losses !  .  .  . 

The  web  of  our  life  is  of  a  mingled  yarn,  good 
and  ill  together :  our  virtues  would  be  proud 
if  our  faults  whipped  them  not ;  and  our  crimes 
would  despair,  if  they  were  not  cherished  by 
our  virtues. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

The  tenderness  of  her  nature  became  as  a 
prey  to  her  grief ;  in  fine,  made  a  groan  of  her 
last  breath,  and  now  she  sings  in  heaven. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 
98 


air*  Well  Gbat  £nDs 

&a\>  24. 

MEN. 

I  have  but  little  more  to  say,  sir,  of  his 
honesty  :  he  has  everything  that  an  honest 
man  should  not  have  ;  what  an  honest  man 

should  have,  he  has  nothing. 

Act  IV,  St.  3. 

WOMEN. 

It  was  the  death  of  the  most  virtuous  gentle- 
woman, that  ever  nature  had  praise  for  creat- 
ing. .  .  .  'Twas  a  good  lady,  'twas  a  good 
lady.  We  may  pick  a  thousand  salads,  ere  we 
light  on  such  another  herb.  .  .  .  Indeed,  sir, 
she  was  the  sweet  marjoram  of  the  salad,  or, 

rather  the  herb  of  grace. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 


25. 

MEN. 

A  man  whom  fortune  hath  cruelly  scratched. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

A  wife 

Whose  beauty  did  astonish  the  survey 
Of  richest  eyes;  whose  words  all  ears  took 
captive  ; 

99 


5obn. 

Whose  dear  perfection,  hearts  that  scorn'd  to 

serve 
Humbly  call'd  mistress. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 


26. 

MEN. 

A  sceptre,  snatch'd  with  an  unruly  hand, 
Must  be  as  boisterously  maintained  as  gain'd  : 
And  he  that  stands  upon  a  slippery  place 
Makes  nice  of  no  vile  hold  to  stay  him  up. 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Of  Nature's  gifts  thou  mayst  with  lilies  boast, 
And  with  the  half-blown  rose. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  /. 


27. 

MEN. 

Before  the  curing  of  a  strong  disease, 
Even  in  the  instant  of  repair  and  health 
The  fit  is  strongest  :  evils,  that  take  leave, 
On  their  departure  most  of  all  show  evil. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 

I  GO 


Sobm 

WOMEN. 

Bind  up  those  tresses  :  O,  what  love  I  note 
In  the  fair  multitude  of  those  her  hairs  ! 
Where  but  by  chance  a  silver  drop  hath  fallen. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 


28. 

MEN. 

Life  is  as  tedious  as  a  twice-told  tale, 
Vexing  the  dull  ear  of  a  drowsy  man. 
Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Grief  fills  the  room  up  of  my  absent  child, 
Lies  in  his  bed,  walks  up  and  down  with  me, 
Puts  on  his  pretty  looks,  repeats  his  words, 
Remembers  me  of  all  his  gracious  parts, 
Stuffs  out  his  vacant  garments  with  his  form  : 
Then  have  I  reason  to  be  fond  of  grief.  .  . 
O  Lord  !  my  boy,  .  .  .  my  fair  son  ! 
My  life,  my  joy,  my  food,  my  all  the  world  ! 
My  widow-comfort,  and  my  sorrows'  cure  ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 
101 


•Ring  5obn. 

flbay  29. 

MEN. 

To  avoid  deceit  I  mean  to  learn  ; 
For  it  shall  strew  the  footsteps  of  my  rising. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  woman,  naturally  born  to  fears. 

Act  III.  Sc.  /. 


30. 

MEN. 

Who  dares  not  stir  by  day  must  walk  by  night  ; 
And  have  is  have,  however  men  do  catch  : 
Near  or  far  off,  well  won  is  still  well  shot. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 
He  that  perforce  robs  lions  of  their  hearts, 

May  easily  win  a  woman's. 

ActJt  Sc.  i. 

dBa£  31. 

MEN. 

And  if  his  name  be  George,  1*11  call  him  Peter  : 
For    new-made    honour  doth    forget  men's 

names  ! 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 
102 


Jobn* 

WOMEN. 

Make  her  rich 

In  titles,  honours,  and  promotions, 
As  she  is  in  beauty,  education,  blood. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 


fting  ftichard  tbe  $ccon&. 

Hing  Dentfc  the  jfouttb,  part  f  *  Part  fff . 

tTroilus  and  CressiDa. 


TIQlelcdme  ever  emilea, 
&nb  jf arewell  (jocff  out  efqbina- 

rro«fe*  and  Cressitta.    A  ct  III,  Se.  *. 


'KicbarD  f  I  * 

5unc  I. 

MEN. 

The  purest  treasure  mortal  times  afford 
Is  spotless  reputation  ;  that  away, 
Men  are  but  gilded  loam,  or  painted  clay. 
A  jewel  in  a  ten-times  barr'd-up  chest 
Is  a  bold  spirit  in  a  loyal  breast, 
Mine  honour  is  my  life  ;  both  grow  in  one ; 
Take  honour  from  me,  and  my  life  is  done. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

If  of  joy,  being  altogether  wanting, 
It  doth  remember  me  the  more  of  sorrow ; 
Or  if  of  grief,  being  altogether  had, 
It  adds  more  sorrow  to  my  want  of  joy : 
For  what  I  have,  I  need  not  to  repent ; 
And  what  I  want,  it  boots  not  to  complain. 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

June  2* 
MEN. 

What  is  six  winters  ?  they  are  quickly  gone, 
To  men  in  joy ;  but  grief  makes  one  hour  ten. 

Act  /,  Sc.  3. 
1 06 


Iting  -RicbarD  If. 

WOMEN. 

The  trial  of  a  woman's  war, 
The  bitter  clamour  of  two  eager  tongues. 

Act  7,  Sc.  z. 

June  3. 

MEN. 

All  places  that  the  eye  of  heaven  visits 
Are  to  a  wise  man  ports  and  happy  havens : 
Teach  thy  necessity  to  reason  thus  ; 
There  is  no  virtue  like  necessity. 

Act  I,  Sc.j. 

WOMEN. 

She  came  adorned  .  .  .  like  sweet  May. 

Act  F,  Sc.  r. 

June  4. 

MEN. 

They  say  the  tongues  of  dying  men 
Enforce  attention,  like  deep  harmony  ; 
Where  words  are  scarce,  they  are  seldom  spent 

in  vain ; 
For  they  breathe  truth,  that  breathe  their  words 

in  pain. 

Act  II t  Sc.  /. 
107 


IRtcbarfc  If. 

WOMEN. 

Comfort's  in  heaven  ;  and  we  are  on  the  earth, 
Where  nothing  lives,  but  crosses,  care,  and 

grief. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

June  5. 

MEN. 

Wrath-kindled  gentleman,  be  ruled  by  me  ; 
Let's  purge  this  choler  without  letting  blood  : 
This  we  prescribe,  though  no  physician  ; 
Deep  malice  makes  too  deep  incision  : 
Forget,  forgive,  conclude,  and  be  agreed. 

Act  I,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

To  be  a  make-peace  shall  become  my  age. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 

3une  6. 

MEN. 

Woe  doth  the  heavier  sit, 
Where  it  perceives  it  is  but  faintly  borne. 

Look,  what  thy  soul  holds  dear,  imagine  it 
To  lie  that  way  thou  go'st,  not  whence  thou 
com'st. 

108 


fting  IRicbaift  f f . 

Suppose  the  singing  birds,  musicians  ; 

The  grass  whereon  thou  tread'st,  the  presence 

strew'd ; 

The  flowers,  fair  ladies  ;  and  thy  steps,  no  more 
Than  a  delightful  measure,  or  a  dance  : 
For  gnarling  sorrow  hath  less  power  to  bite 
The  man  that  mocks  at  it,  and  sets  it  light. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 


WOMEN. 

Love  they  to  live,  that  love  and  honour  have. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 


June  7* 

MEN. 

How  sour  sweet  music  is, 
When  time  is  broke,  and  no  proportion  kept ! 
So  is  it  in  the  music  of  men's  lives. 

Act  V>  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Sorrow  ends  not  when  it  seemeth  done. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

log 


TRlcbarD  f  f  * 

June  8. 

MEN. 

My  fair  name, 

Despite  of  Death,  that  lives  upon  my  grave. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Joy  absent,  grief  is  present  for  that  time. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

June  0. 

MEN. 

His  rash  fierce  blaze  of  riot  cannot  last ; 
For  violent  fires  soon  burn  out  themselves  ; 
Small  showers  last  long,  but  sudden  storms 

are  short ; 

He  tires  betimes,  that  spurs  too  fast  betimes ; 
With   eager    feeding,    food    doth   choke  the 

feeder : 

Light  vanity,  insatiate  cormorant, 
Consuming  means,  soon  preys  upon  itself. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  long-parted  mother  with  her  child 
Plays  fondly  with  her  tears  and  smiles,  in 

meeting. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
no 


IRicbacfc  f  f . 

June  10. 
MEN. 

Deal  mildly  with  his  youth  ; 
For  young  hot  colts,  being  raged,  do  rage  the 
more. 

Act  II,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Your  cares  set  up  do  not  pluck   my  cares 

down. 

My  care  is  loss  of  care,  by  old  care  done  ; 
Your  care  is  gain  of  care,  by  new  care  won  : 
The  cares  I  give  I  have,  though  given  away. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  /. 

Suite  n. 

MEN. 

.  .  .  Wise  men  ne'er  wail  their  present  woes, 
But  presently  prevent  the  ways  to  wail. 
To  fear  the  foe,  since  fear  oppresseth  strength, 
Gives,  in  your  weakness,  strength  unto  your 

foe,    ' 
And  so  your  follies  fight  against  yourself. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
in 


1>enry  f  \i>,  part  1f. 
WOMEN. 

He  does  me  double  wrong 
That   wounds   me  with  the  flatteries   of   his 
tongue. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
frtnfi  Dcnrt  IV,  flart  f , 

5une  12. 

MEN. 

I  would  thou  and  I  knew  where  a  commod- 
ity of  good  names  were  to  be  bought ! 

Act  I,  Sc.  2, 

WOMEN. 

Constant  you  are, 
But  yet  a  woman  :  and  for  secrecy, 
No  lady  closer;  for  I  will  believe 
Thou  wilt  not  utter  what  thou  dost  not  know  ; 
And  so  far  will  I  trust  thee. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

5unc  13. 

MEN. 

?Tis  no  sin  for  a  man  to  labour  in  his  voca- 
tion. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

112 


Iking  f>enrg  fit),  part  f . 

WOMEN. 

I  will  ease  my  heart, 
Although  it  be  with  hazard  of  my  head. 

Act  I,  Sc.  j. 

June  H. 

MEN. 

That  ever,  this  fellow  should  have  fewer 
words  than  a  parrot,  and  yet  the  son  of  a 
woman ! 

Act.  II,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

My  condition 
.  .  .  Hath  been  smooth  as  oil,  soft  as  young 

down, 

And  therefore  lost  that  title  of  respect 
Which  the  proud  soul  ne'er  pays  but  to  the 
proud. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

June  15. 
MEN. 

Wisdom  cries  out  in  the  streets,  and  no 
man  regards  it. 

Act  f,  Sc.  2. 
113 


•fcfng  1>enri2  f  ID,  part  f  . 
WOMEN. 

What  a  wasp-stung  and  impatient  fool 
Art  thou,  to  break  into  this  woman's  mood. 

Act  I,  St.  j. 

June  16, 

MEN. 

If  all  the  years  were  playing  holidays, 
To  sport  would  be  as  tedious  as  to  work  ; 
But  when  they  seldom  come  they  wish'd-for 
come. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Do  you  not  love  me  ?  do  you  not,  indeed  ? 
Well,  do  not  then  ;  for,  since  you  love  me  not, 
I  will  not  love  myself. 

Act  77,  Sc.  3. 


17, 

MEN. 

Being  daily  swallow'd  by  men's  eyes, 
They  surfeited  with  honey,  and  began, 
To  loathe  the  taste  of  sweetness,  whereof  a 
little 

114 


f>enr£  Wt  part  ff* 

More  than  a  little  is  by  much  too  much. 
So,  when  he  had  occasion  to  be  seen, 
He  was  but  as  the  cuckoo  is  in  June, 
Heard,  not  regarded. 

Act  IIIt  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

O,  he's  as  tedious 
As  is  a  tired  horse,  a  railing  wife ; 
Worse  than  a  smoky  house  : — I  had  rather  live 
With  cheese  and  garlic  in  a  windmill,  far, 
Than  .  .  .  have  him  talk  to  me, 
In  any  summer-house  in  Christendom. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

ttenrs  IIP,  Dart  2. 

June  18* 

MEN. 

Rumour  is  a  pipe 

Blown  by  surmises,  jealousies,  conjectures, 
And  of  so  easy  and  so  plain  a  stop 
That  the  blunt  monster  with  uncounted  heads, 
The  still-discordant  wavering  multitude, 
Can  play  upon  it.  ... 

.  .  .  The  posts  come  tiring  on, 
And  not  a  man  of  them  brings  other  news 
"5 


Dents  TO,  Part  f  f . 

Than  they  have  learn'd  of  me  :  from  Rumour's 

tongues 
They  bring  smooth  comforts  false,  worse  than 

true  wrongs. 

Ind. 

WOMEN. 

Open  your  ears :  for  which  of  you  will  stop 
The   vent  of    hearing    when    loud    Rumour 
speaks  ? 

Ind. 

3une  19, 

MEN. 

This  man's  brow,  like  to  a  title-leaf, 
Foretells  the  nature  of  a  tragic  volume. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Thou  wilt   be  as  valiant  as   the  wrathful 
dove,  or  most  magnanimous  mouse. 

Act  III,  Sc.2. 

5une  20* 
MEN. 

Be  honest,  be  honest ;    and  Heaven  bless 

your  expedition ! 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 
lift 


part  f  f . 

WOMEN. 

See  what  a  ready  tongue  suspicion  hath ! 

Act  /,  Sr.  /. 

3une  21, 
MEN. 

All  is  well,  keep  it  so ;  wake  not  a  sleeping 
wolf. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

The  first  bringer  of  unwelcome  news 
Hath  but  a  losing  office  ;  and  his  tongue 
Sounds  ever  after  as  a  sullen  bell, 
Remembered  knolling  a  departed  friend. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

Suite  22. 

MEN. 

He  is  a  man, 
Who  with  a  double  surety  binds  his  followers, 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 
117 


f>entB  f ID,  part  1Tf . 

WOMEN. 

So  came  I  a  widow  ; 

And  never  shall  have  length  of  life  enough, 
To  rain  upon  remembrance  with  mine  eyes. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

$une  23. 

MEN. 

There  is  not  a  white  hair  on  your  face  but 
should  have  his  effect  of  gravity. 

Act  7,  Sc.  a. 

WOMEN. 

Loving  wife,  and  gentle  daughter,  .  .  . 
Put  not  you  on  the  visage  of  the  times. 

Act  77,  Sc.  3. 

Sune  24* 

MEN. 

A  peace  is  of  the  nature  of  a  conquest ; 
For  then  both  parties  nobly  are  subdued, 

And  neither  party  loser. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 
118 


Groflus  anD  CressiCm. 

WOMEN. 

You  are  the  weaker  vessel,  as  they  say,  the 

emptier  vessel. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

Uroilua  and  Creseffca. 

June  25* 

MEN. 

Have  you  any  discretion  ?  have  you  any 
eyes?  Do  you  know  what  a  man  is?  Is  not 
birth,  beauty,  good  shape,  discourse,  manhood, 
learning,  gentleness,  virtue,  youth,  liberality, 
and  so  forth,  the  spice  and  salt  that  season  a 

man? 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Sorrow  that  is  couch'd  in  seeming  gladness 
Is  like  that  mirth  fate  turns  to  sudden  sadness. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

June  26. 
MEN. 

This  man  .  .  .  hath  robbed  many  beasts  of 
their  particular  additions  ;  he  is  as  valiant  as 
the  lion,  churlish  as  the  bear,  slow  as  the  ele- 
119 


Sroilus  and  Cressifca. 

phant:  a  man  into  whom  nature  hath  so 
crowded  humours,  that  his  valour  is  crushed 
into  folly,  his  folly  sauced  with  discretion : 
there  is  no  man  hath  a  virtue  that  he  hath  not 
a  glimpse  of ;  nor  any  man  an  attaint  but  he 
carries  some  stain  of  it  ...  he  hath  the  joints 
of  everything,  but  everything,  so  out  of  joint, 
that  he  is  a  gouty  Briareus,  many  hands  and 
no  use  ;  or  purblinded  Argus,  all  eyes  and  no 

sight. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Weaker  than  a  woman's  tear. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 

June  27* 

MEN. 

He  has  a  shrewd  wit,  .  .  .  and  he's  man  good 
enough  :  he  has  the  soundest  judgment  .  .  . 
and  he's  a  proper  man  of  person. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Women  are  angels,  wooing  : 
Things  won  are   done,  joy's  soul  lies  in  the 
doing ; 

iao 


Cretins  and  CressiDa. 

That  she  belov'd  knows  nought  that  knows 

not  this, — 

Men  prize  the  thing  ungain'd  more  than  it  is  : 
That  she  was  never  yet  that  ever  knew 
Love  got  so  sweet,  as  when  desire  did  sue  : 
Therefore  this  maxim  out  of  love  I  teach, — 
Achievement  is  command ;  ungairfd,  beseech  ; 
Then  though  my  heart's  content  firm  love  doth 

bear, 

Nothing  of  that  shall  from  my  eyes  appear. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

June  28* 
MEN. 

He  that  is  proud  eats  up  himself :  pride  is 
his  own  glass,  his  own  trumpet,  his  own 
chronicle  ;  and  whatever  praises  itself  but  in 
the  deed,  devours  the  deed  in  the  praise. 

Act  17,  Sc,  j. 

WOMEN. 

Let  her  be  as  she  is ;  if  she  be  fair  'tis  the 
better  for  her;  an  she  be  not,  she  has  the 
mends  in  her  own  hands. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

121 


Groilus  an&  GressiDa, 

5unc  29* 

MEN. 

Blind  fear  that  seeing  reason  leads,  finds 
safer  footing  than  blind  reason  stumbling  with- 
out fear ;  to  fear  the  worst  oft  cures  the  worst. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

To  make  a  sweet  lady  sad  is  a  sour  offence. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

Sune  30. 
MEN. 

'Tis  certain,  greatness,  once  fallen   out  with 

fortune 
Must  fall  out  with  men  too 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Though  I  loved  you  well,  I  woo'd  you  not ; 
And  yet,  good  faith,  I  wish'd  myself  a  man ; 
Or  that  we  women  had  men's  privilege 
Of  speaking  first. 

Act  III.  Sc.  2. 

1*3 


Julius  Garsar. 
BntonE  an^  Cleopatra* 
©tbello. 


Ube  e^e  sees  not  itself, 

JSut  b?  reflection,  b^  some  otber  tbin^s. 

/«/t«x  drsar,  Act  7, 


123 


3uliua  Caesar. 

5uls  t. 

MEN. 

I  cannot  tell  what  you  and  other  men 
Think  of  this  life  ;  but,  for  my  single  self, 
I  had  as  lief  not  be  as  live  to  be 
In  awe  of  such  a  thing  as  I  myself. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

How  hard  it  is  for  women  to  keep  counsel  ! 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 


2. 

MEN. 

Indeed,  it  is  a  strange-disposed  time  : 

But  men  may  construe  things,  after  their  fash- 

ion, 
Clean  from  the  purpose  of  the  things  them- 

selves. 

Act  I,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

I  have  a  man's  mind,  but  a  woman's  might. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 
124 


Status 

5uly  3* 

MEN. 

...  He  loves  to  hear 
That  unicorns  may  be  betray'd  with  trees, 
And  bears  with  glasses,  elephants  with  holes, 
Lions  with  toils,  and  men  with  flatterers  : 
But  when  I  tell  him  he  hates  flatterers, 
He  says  he  does  ;  being  then  most  flattered. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

My  heart  laments  that  virtue  cannot  live 
Out  of  the  teeth  of  emulation. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 


MEN. 

Men  at  some  time  are  masters  of  their  fates. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Enjoy  the  honey-heavy  dew  of  slumber  : 
Thou  hast  no  figures,  nor  no  fantasies, 
Which  busy  care  draws  in  the  brains  of  men  : 
Therefore  thou  sleep'st  so  sound. 

Act  77,  Sc.  A 


Julius  Czcsar. 

5ulB  5. 

MEN. 

Let  me  have  men  about  me  that  are  fat  ; 
Sleek-headed  men,  and  such  as  sleep  o'  nights  : 
Yond'  Cassius  has  a  lean  and  hungry  look  ; 
He  thinks  too  much  :  such  men  are  dangerous. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

O  constancy,  be  strong  upon  my  side  ! 
Set  a  huge  mountain  'tween   my  heart   and 

tongue  ! 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 


6. 

MEN. 

Thy  heart  is  big  ;  get  thee  apart  and  weep. 
Passion,  I  see,  is  catching  ;  for  mine  eyes, 
Seeing  those  beads  of  sorrow  stand  in  thine, 

Begin  to  water. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Have  you  not  love  enough  to  bear  with  me, 
When  that  rash  humour  which  my  mother  gave 
me 

Makes  me  forgetful  ? 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 
126 


5ultu0  Czesar, 

3ulB  7. 

MEN. 

.  .  .  O,  that  a  man  might  know 
The  end  of  this  day's  business  ere  it  come  ! 
But  it  sufficeth  that  the  day  will  end, 
And  then  the  end  is  known. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

With  meditating  that  she  must  die  once, 
I  have  the  patience  to  endure  it  now. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 


MEN. 

There  is  a  tide  in  the  affairs  of  men, 

Which,  taken  at  the  flood,   leads  on  to  for- 

tune: 

Omitted,  all  the  voyage  of  their  life 
Is  bound  in  shallows  and  in  miseries. 

Act.  IV,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

.  .  .  Steel  with  valour 
The  melting  spirits  of  women. 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

12J 


Suiiue  Caesar, 

5ul£  0. 
MEN. 

It  was  but  an  effect  of  humour, 
Which  sometimes  hath  his  hour   with   every 
man. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

You  have  some  sick  offence  within  your  mind, 
Which,  by  the  right  and  virtue  of  my  place, 
I  ought  to  know  of  :  and,  upon  my  knees, 
I  charm  you,  by  my  once-commended  beauty, 
By  all  your  vows  of  love  and  that  great  vow 
Which  did  incorporate  and  make  us  one, 
That  you  unfold  to  me,  yourself,  your  half, 
Why  you  are  heavy. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 


MEN. 

His  life  was  gentle  ;  and  the  elements 

So  mix'd  in  him  that  Nature  might  stand  up, 

And  say  to  all  the  world,  This  was  a  man  I 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 
128 


Julius  Caveat* 

WOMEN. 

My  true  and  honourable  wife  ; 
As  dear  to  me  as  are  the  ruddy  drops 

That  visit  my  sad  heart. 

Act  II.  Sc.  I. 


MEN. 

Cowards  die  many  times  before  their  deaths  ; 
The  valiant  never  taste  of  death  but  once. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 
Ah  me  !  how  weak  a  thing 

The  heart  of  woman  is  ! 

Act  II,  Sc.  4. 


MEN. 

'Tis  a  common  proof, 
That  lowliness  is  young  ambition's  ladder, 
Whereto  the  climber-upward  turns  his  face  : 
But  when  he  once  attains  the  utmost  round, 
He  then  unto  the  ladder  turns  his  back, 
Looks  in  the  clouds,  scorning  the  base  de- 
grees 

By  which  he  did  ascend. 

Act  II,  Sc.i. 

9  I29 


Julius  Caesar* 

WOMEN. 

Tell  me  your  counsels,  I  will  not  disclose  them  : 
I  have  made  strong  proof  of  my  constancy, 
Giving  myself  a  voluntary  wound. 

.  .  .  Can  I  bear  that  with  patience, 
And  not  my  husband's  secrets  ? 

Act  II,  Sex. 


MEN. 

He  reads  much  ; 

He  is  a  great  observer,  and  he  looks 
Quite  through  the  deeds  of  men  ;  .  .  . 

Seldom  he  smiles  ;  and  smiles  in  such  a  sort 
As  if  he  mock'd  himself  and  scorn'd  his  spirit 
That  could  be  moved  to  smile  at  anything. 
Such  men  as  he  be  never  at  heart's  ease, 
Whiles  they  behold  a  greater  than  themselves  ; 
And  therefore  are  they  very  dangerous. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Dear  my  lord, 

Make  me  acquainted  with  your  cause  of  grief. 

Act  77,  Sc.  /. 

130 


Sulfus  Carsar. 


MEN. 

Tis  meet 

That  noble  minds  keep  ever  with  their  likes. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  grant  I  am  a  woman  ;  but,  withal, 

A  woman  that  Lord  Brutus  took  to  wife  : 

I  grant  I  am  a  woman  :  but,  withal, 

A  woman  well-reputed,  —  Cato's  daughter. 

Think  you  I  am  no  stronger  than  my  sex, 

Being  so  father'd  and  so  husbanded  ? 

Act  J7,  Sc.  i. 


15. 

MEN. 

He  will  never  follow  anything 
That  other  men  begin. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i, 

WOMEN. 

Within  the  bond  of  marriage,  tell  me,  Brutus, 
Is  it  expected  I  should  know  no  secrets 
That  appertain  to  you  ?     Am  I  yourself 
But,  as  it  were,  in  sort  or  limitation  ; 
131 


an&  Cleopatra* 

To  keep  with  you  at  meals,  comfort  your  bed, 
And  talk  to  you  sometimes  ?     Dwell  I  but  in 
the  suburbs 

Of  your  good  pleasure  ? 

Act  77,  Sc.  i. 

Hntons  anfc  Cleopatra. 


MEN. 

We,  ignorant  of  ourselves, 
Beg  often  our   own  harms,  which   the   wise 

powers 
Deny  us  for  our  good  ;  so  find  we  profit 

By  losing  of  our  prayers. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

As  for  my  wife, 

I  would  you  had  her  spirit  in  such  another  : 
The  third  o'  the  world  is  yours  ;  .  .  . 

.  .  .  But  not  such  a  wife. 
Act  77,  Sc.  2. 


17. 

MEN. 

His  faults,  in  him,  seem  as    the    spots  of 
heaven, 

132 


Bntony  an&  Cleopatra. 

More  fiery  by  night's  blackness;  hereditary, 
Rather    than    purchased  ;     what    he    cannot 
change, 

Than  what  he  chooses. 

Act  I,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

But  that  your  royalty 
Holds  idleness  your  subject,  I  should  take  you 

For  idleness  itself. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 


MEN. 

Though  it  be  honest,  it  is  never  good 

To  bring  bad  news  :  give  to   a  gracious  mes- 

sage 
An  host  of  tongues  ;  but  let  ill  tidings  tell 

Themselves,  when  they  be  felt. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Her  beauty  claims 

No  worse  a  husband  than  the  best  of  men  : 
Her  virtue,  and  general  grace,  speak 
That  which  none  else  can  utter. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 
133 


Bntong  anD  Cleopatra. 


MEN. 

What,  was  he  sad,  or  merry  ? 
Like  to  the  time  o'  the  year  between  the  ex- 

tremes 

Of  hot  and  cold,  he  was  not  sad  nor  merry. 

Act  I,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 
You  shall  be  yet  far  fairer  than  you  are. 

You  shall  be  more  beloving  than  beloved. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 


20. 

MEN. 

What  our  contempts  do  often  hurl  from  us, 
We  wish  it  ours  again  ;  the  present  pleasure, 
By  revolution  lowering,  does  become 

The  opposite  of  itself. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Under  a  compelling  occasion,  let  women  die  : 
...     I  have  seen  her  die  twenty  times  upon 
far  poorer  moment  :  I  do  think  there  is  mettle 
134 


Bntong  an&  Cleopatra* 

in  death  which  commits  some  loving  act  upon 
her,  she  hath  such  a  celerity  in  dying.     She  is 

cunning  past  man's  thoughts. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

3ulB  21. 

MEN. 
These  hands  do  lack  nobility,  that  they  strike 

A  meaner  than  myself. 

Act  77,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Age  cannot  wither  her,  nor  custom  stale 
Her  infinite  variety  :  other  women  cloy 
The  appetites  they  feed :  but  she  makes  hun- 
gry 
Where  most  she  satisfies. 

ActII.Sc.*. 

5ul£  22. 

MEN. 

Our  courteous  Antony, 
Whom  ne'er  the  word  of  No  woman   heard 

speak, 
Being  barber'd  ten  times  o'er,  goes  to  the 

feast, 
And  for  his  ordinary  pays  his  heart 

For  what  his  eyes  eat  only. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 


Bntong  an&  Cleopatra. 

WOMEN. 

She  did  make  defect,  perfection. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 


23. 

MEN. 

If  I  lose  mine  honor 

I  lose  myself. 

Aci  ///,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

The  April  's  in  her  eyes  :  it  is  love's  spring. 

Act  III,  Sc.  a. 


24, 

MEN. 

Wisdom  and  fortune  combating  together, 
If  that  the  former  dare  but  what  it  can, 

No  chance  may  shake  it. 

Act  III,  Sc.  n. 

WOMEN. 

That  time  !—  O  times  !— 
I  laugh'd  him  out  of  patience  ;  and  that  night 

I  laugh'd  him  into  patience. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

136 


Qtbello* 

Suis  25* 
MEN. 

Tis  the  curse  of  service, 
Perferment  goes  by  letter  and  affection, 
And  not  by  old  gradation,  where  each  second 
Stood  heir  to  the  first. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  a  most  exquisite  lady. 

Act  II,  Sc.  3. 


26. 

MEN. 

We  cannot  all  be  masters,  nor  all  masters 
Cannot  be  truly  follow'd. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Your  daughter  .  .  . 

.  .  .  Hath  made  a  gross  revolt 
Tying  her  duty,  beauty,  wit,  and  fortunes 
In  an  extravagant  and  wheeling  stranger, 

Of  here  and  everywhere. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 


©tbcllo, 

Juls  27. 

MEN. 

Poor  and  content,  is  rich,  and  rich  enough, 
But  riches,  fineless,  is  as  poor  as  winter 
To  him  that  ever  fears  he  shall  be  poor. 

Act  III,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

What  an  eye  she  has  !  .  .  . 

An  inviting  eye  ;  and  yet  methinks   right 

modest. 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 


28. 

MEN. 

Good  name  in  man  or  woman,  .  .  , 

Is  the  immediate  jewel  of  their  souls  : 

Who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash  ;  'tis  some- 

thing, nothing; 
'Twas  mine,  'tis  his,  and  has  been  slave  to 

thousands  ; 

But  he  that  filches  from  me  my  good  name 
Robs  me  of  that  which  not  enriches  him, 

And  makes  me  poor  indeed. 

Act  III.  Sc.  3. 


fltbello* 

WOMEN. 

Indeed,  she's  a  most  fresh    and   delicate 
creature. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 


20. 

MEN. 

O,  beware,  my  lord,  of  jealousy  ; 
It  is  the  green-eyed  monster,  which  doth  mock 

The  meat  it  feeds  on. 

Aci  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

.  .  .  My  wife  is  fair,  feeds  well,  loves  com- 

pany, 

Is  free  of  speech,  sings,  plays  and  dances. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 


30. 

MEN. 

Men's  natures  wrangle  with  inferior  things, 
Though  great  ones  are  their  object. 

We  must  not  think  men  are  gods. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 
139 


Otbcllo. 

WOMEN. 

When  she  speaks  is  it  not  an  alarum  to  love  ? 

Act  //,  Sc.  3. 


MEN. 

This  fellow's  of  exceeding  honesty, 
And  knows    all    qualities,    with    a    learned 
spirit, 

Of  human  dealings. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

O,  the  world  hath  not  a  sweeter  creature  ! 
...  I  do  but  say  what  she  is  :  so  delicate 
with  her  needle  !  an  admirable  musician  !  O, 
she  will  sing  the  savageness  out  of  a  bear  ! 
of  so  high  and  plenteous  wit  and  invitation  ! 

Act  IVt  Sc.  i. 


140 


Borneo  an&  Juliet* 

frtn0  Denr^  tbe  Sfxtb—  part  f  * 

•Ring  Dents  tbe  Sfxtb—  part  H1F. 


Oob  be  pratseb,  tbat  to  believing  souft 
dives  ligbt  in  bareness,  comfort  in  bespaix  ! 

Henry  Vl-Part  II.    Act,  II  Sc.  /. 


•Romeo  an&  Juliet* 


MEN. 

A  man,  .  .  .  such  a  man 
As  all  the  world  —  why,  he's  a  man  of  wax. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

She'll  not  be  hit 

With  Cupid's  arrow;  she  hath  Dian's  wit  ; 
And,  .  .   .  from  love's  weak  childish  bow  she 

lives  unharm'd. 

She  will  not  stay  the  siege  of  loving  terms, 
Nor  bide  the  encounter  of  assailing  eyes, 
Nor  ope  her  lap  to  saint-seducing  gold  : 

O.  she  is  rich  in  beauty. 

Act  I.  Sc.  i. 

Buflust  2. 

MEN. 

Love  moderately  ;  long  love  doth  so  ; 
Too  swift  arrives  as  tardy  as  too  slow. 

Act  II,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

She  speaks  ; 

O,  speak  again,  bright  angel  !  for  thou  art 
As  glorious  to  this  night,  being  o'er  my  head, 
142 


TRomeo  an&  5uUet* 

As  is  a  winged  messenger  of  heaven 
Unto  the  white  upturned  wandering  eyes 
Of  mortals  that  fall  back  to  gaze  on  him 
When  he  bestrides  the  lazy  pacing  clouds 
And  sails  upon  the  bosom  of  the  air. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

Buflust  3* 

MEN. 

He  was  not  born  to  shame  : 
Upon  his  brow  shame  is  ashamed  to  sit  ; 
For  'tis  a  throne  where  honour  may  be  crown'd 
Sole  monarch  of  the  universal  earth. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 
WOMEN. 

Her  sorrow  .  .  . 

Which,  too  much  minded  by  herself  alone, 
May  be  put  from  her  by  society. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  i. 


4. 

MEN. 
Tut,  man  !  one  fire  burns  out  another's  burn- 

ing, 

One  pain  is  lessened  by  another's  anguish  ; 
143 


•Romeo  and  Juliet. 

Turn  giddy,  and  be  holp  by  backward  turn- 
ing; 
One  desperate  grief  cures  with   another's 

languish  : 

Take  thou  some  new  infection  to  thy  eye, 
And  the  rank  poison  of  the  old  will  die. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2t 

WOMEN. 

She, 
She  is  the  hopeful  lady  of  my  earth. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

5. 


MEN. 

To  move  is — to  stir ;  and  to  be  valiant  is — 
to  stand ;  therefore,  if  thou  art  moved,  thou 
runn'st  away. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Women,  being  the  weaker  vessels,  are  ever 
thrust  to  the  wall. 

Act  It  Sc.  /. 
144 


IRomeo  an&  Juliet, 

Bugust  6* 

MEN. 

( 

He,  his  own  affections'  counsellor, 

Is  to  himself — I  will  not  say  how  true — 

But  to  himself  so  secret  and  so  close, 

So  far  from  sounding  and  discovery, 

As  is  the  bud  bit  with  an  envious  worm, 

Ere  he  can  spread  his  sweet  leaves  to  the  air, 

Or  dedicate  his  beauty  to  the  sun. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Alas,  that  love,  so  gentle  in  his  view, 
Should  be  so  tyrannous  and  rough  in  proof  I 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

Bugust  7, 

MEN. 

Wisely  and  slow  ;  they  stumble  that  run  fast. 

Act  II,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

If  thou  think'st  I  am  too  quickly  won, 

I'll  frown  and  be  perverse  and  say  thee  nay, 

So  thou  wilt  woo ;  but  else*  not  for  the  world. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 
10  145 


Homeo  anfc  Juliet. 

August  8* 

MEN. 

You  are  a  lover  ;  borrow  Cupid's  wings, 
And  soar  with  them  above  a  common  bound. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Is  love  a  tender  thing  ?  it  is  too  rough, 
Too  rude,  too  boisterous  and  it  pricks,  like  a 
thorn. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 


MEN. 

What  a  change  is  here  ! 
Is  Rosaline,  whom  thou  didst  love  so  dear, 
So  soon    forsaken  ?    young   men's  love   then 

lies 

Not  truly  in  their  hearts,  but  in  their  eyes. 

Act  If,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

One  fairer  than  my  love  !  the  all-seeing  sun 
Ne'er  saw  her  match  since  first  the  world  be- 

gun. 

Act  I,  Sc.2. 
146 


IRomeo  anO  JuHef* 

Busust  10* 

MEN 

He  that  is  strucken  blind  cannot  forget 
The  precious  treasure  of  his  eyesight  lost : 
Show  me  a  mistress  that  is  passing  fair, 
What  doth  her  beauty  serve,  but  as  a  note 
Where  I   may  read,  who  pass*  d  that  passing 
fair? 

Actlt  Sc.i. 

WOMEN. 

With  unattainted  eye, 

Compare  her  face  with  some  that  I  shall  show, 
And  I  will  make  thee  think  thy  swan  a  crow. 

Act  It  Sc.  2. 

august  ll. 

MEN. 

He  jest  at  scars,  that  never  felt  a  wound. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Love  !  Lord  !  ay — husband,  friend ! 
I  must  hear  from  thee  every  day  in  the  hour, 
For  in  a  minute  there  are  many  days. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  j. 


IRomeo  and  Juliet* 

august  12. 

MEN. 

A  gentleman,  .  .  .  that  loves  to  hear  him- 
self talk ;  and  will  speak  more  in  a  minute, 
than  he  will  stand  to  in  a  month. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  too  fair,  too  wise,  wisely  too  fair, 
To  merit  bliss  by  making  me  despair. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 

Rugust  13, 

MEN. 

He  bears  him   like   a  portly  gentleman; 
...  A  virtuous  and  well-govern'd  youth. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

O,  she  doth  teach  the  torches  to  burn  bright  1 
It  seems  she  hangs  upon  the  cheek  of  night 
Like  a  rich  jewel  in  an  Ethiope's  ear : 
Beauty  too  rich  for  use,  for  earth  too  dear  !^ 
So  shows  a  snowy  dove  trooping  with  crowsfr, 
As  yonder  lady  o'er  her  fellows  shows. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 
148 


Komeo  an&  Sulfet. 


MEN. 

You  men,  you  beasts, 

That  quench  the  fire  of  your  pernicious  rage 
With  purple  fountains  issuing  from  your  veins. 

Act  /,  Sc.  r. 

WOMEN. 

She   speaks,  yet   she   says   nothing  :  what  of 
that  ? 

Her  eye  discourses. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

Bugust  15. 
MEN. 

Art  thou  a  man  ?  thy  form  cries  out  thou  art  : 

Thy  tears  are  womanish. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Heaven  and  yourself 
Had  part  in  this  fair  maid  ;  now  heaven  hath 

all, 

And  all  the  better  it  is  for  the  maid  : 
Your  part  in   her  you  could  not  keep  from 

death; 

149 


•Borneo  ant)  3ulfet. 

But  Heaven  keeps  his  part  in  eternal  life. 
The  most  you  sought  was  her  promotion. 
For  'twas  your  heaven  she  should  be  advanced  ; 
And  weep  ye  now,  seeing  she  is  advanced 
Above  the  clouds,  as  high  as  heaven  itself  ? 

Act  IV.  Sc.  5. 


16* 

MEN. 

Is  your  man  secret  ?  Did  you  ne'er  hearsay  — 
Two  may  keep  counsel,  putting  one  away  ? 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Here  comes  the  lady  :  O,  so  light  a  foot 
Will  ne'er  wear  out  the  everlasting  flint  : 
A  lover  may  bestride  the  gossamers 
That  idles  in  the  wanton  summer  air, 
And  yet  not  fall  ;  so  light  is  vanity. 

Act  //,  Sc.  6. 

Suguat  17» 

MEN. 

Conceit,  more  rich  in  matter  than  in  words, 
Brags  of  his  substance,  not  of  ornament  : 
They   are  but  beggars  that  can  count  their 
worth. 

Act  II,  Sc.  6. 


IRomeo  anD  Juliet. 

WOMEN. 

Trust  me,  gentleman,  I'll  prove  more  true 
Than   those  that   have   more   cunning  to  be 

strange. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

IS* 


MEN. 

O,  he's  a  lovely  gentleman  ! 

.  .  .  An  eagle.  .  . 

Hath  not  so  green,  so  quick,  so  fair  an  eye. 

Act  777,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Two  of  the  fairest  stars  in  all  the  heaven, 
Having  some  business,  do  intreat  her  eyes 
To  twinkle  in  their  spheres  till  they  return. 
What   if   her  eyes   were   there,    they  in   her 

head? 
The   brightness   of  her  cheek  would   shame 

those  stars, 

As  daylight  doth  a  lamp  ;  her  eyes  in  heaven 
Would  through  the  airy  region  stream  so  bright 
That  birds  would  sing  and  think  it  were  not 

night. 

Act  77,  Sc.  9. 


f>enn>  M*—  fcart  f  . 


MEN. 

An  honest  gentleman,  and  a  courteous,  and 
a  kind,  and  a  handsome,  and,  I  warrant,  a 
virtuous. 

Act  77,  S<r.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Death  lies  on  her  like  an  untimely  frost 
Upon  the  sweetest  flower  of  all  the  field 

Act  IV.  Sc.  5. 

ftina  Denne  VY<-part  f  . 

Bu0uat  20. 

MEN. 

His  sparkling  eyes,  replete  with  wrathful  fire, 
More  dazzled  and  drove  back  his  enemies 
Than  midday  sun  fierce   bent   against  their 

faces. 
What   should   I   say  ?   his   deeds   exceed  all 

speech  : 
He  ne'er  lift  up  his  hand  but  conquered. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 


DentB  Df  .—  IPart  f  * 
WOMEN. 

Thy  wife  is  proud  ;  she  holdeth  thee  in  awe, 
More  than  God  or  religious  churchmen  may. 

Act  I,  6V.  /. 

Bugust  21. 
MEN. 

Glory  is   like  a  circle  in  the  water, 
Which  never  ceaseth  to  enlarge  itself 
Till  by  broad  spreading  it  disperse  to  nought. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

These  women  are  shrewd  tempters  with  their 

tongues. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

22, 


MEN. 

Though  thy  speech  doth  fail, 
One   eye   thou   hast   to   look  to  heaven  for 

grace  : 

The  sun  with  one  eye  vieweth  all  the  world. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 
'53 


DentE  D1T.-part  f. 

WOMEN. 

When  a  world  of  men 
Could  not  prevail  with  all  their  oratory, 
Yet  hath  a  woman's  kindness  over-ruled. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2 

Buguet  23* 

MEN. 

Between   two  hawks,  which   flies  the  higher 
pitch ; 

Between   two   dogs,  which   hath  the   deeper 
mouth ; 

Between    two   blades,  which  bears  the  better 
temper  ; 

Between  two  horses,  which  doth  bear  him  best ; 

Between  two  girls,  which   hath  the   merriest 
eye; 

I  have,  perhaps,  some  shallow  spirit  of  judg- 
ment; 

But  in  these  nice  sharp  quillets  of  the  law, 

Good  faith,  I  am  no  wiser  than  a  daw. 

Act  II,  Sc.  4, 

WOMEN. 

Your  cheeks  do  counterfeit  our  roses. 

Act  II,  Sc.  4. 


Dents  OT.—  part  f  . 
august  24* 

MEN. 

I  have  no  power  to  let  her  pass  ; 
My  hand  would  free  her,  but  my  heart  says 

no. 

As  plays  the  sun  upon  the  glassy  streams, 
Twinkling  another  counterfeited  beam, 
So  seems  this  gorgeous  beauty  to  mine  eyes. 
Fain  would  I  woo  her,  yet  I  dare  not  speak  : 
I'll  call  for  pen  and  ink  and  write  my  mind. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

She's  beautiful,  and  therefore  to  be  woo'd  ; 
She's  a  woman,  therefore  to  be  won. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  3. 


25. 

MEN. 

A  man  just  and  upright. 

Act  IIIt  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

The  chief  perfections  of  that  lovely  dame, 
(Had  I  sufficient  skill  to  utter  them,) 
Would  make  a  volume  of  enticing  lines, 


Dents  Df .— fcart  1  f . 

Able  to  ravish  any  dull  conceit : 
And,  which  is  more,  she  is  not  so  divine, 
So  full-replete  with  choice  of  all  delights, 
But,  with  as  humble  lowliness  of  mind, 
She  is  content  to  be  at  your  command. 

Act  F,  Sc.  j. 

Ulna  Denr*  tDf .-part  Iff. 

Buflust  26, 
MEN. 

Small  curs  are  not  regarded  when  they  grin  ; 
But  great  men  tremble  when  the  lion  roars. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Her  grace  in  speech, 
Her  words  y-clad  with  wisdom's  majesty, 
Makes   me  from  wandering  fall   to  weeping 

joys; 
Such  is  the  fulness  of  my  heart's  content. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 

Bu0U0t  27* 

MEN. 

King.     But  what  a  point,  my  lord,  your  fal- 
con made, 
And  what  a  pitch  she  flew  above  the  rest  1 — 


Dents  lt>1F*-lPart  1Tf  . 

To  see  how  God  in  all  His  creatures  works  ! 
Yea,  man  and  birds  are  fain  of  climbing  high. 

Suf.     No  marvel,  .  .  . 
They  know  their  master  loves  to  be  aloft, 
And  bears  his  thoughts    above   his   falcon's 

pitch. 
Glou.     My   lord,    'tis   but   a  base   ignoble 

mind 

That  mounts  no  higher  than  a  bird  can  soar. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Thy  greatest  help  is  quiet,  gentle  Nell  : 
I  pray  thee,  sort  thy  heart  to  patience. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 


28* 
MEN. 

A  crafty  knave  does  need  no  broker. 

Act  /,  Sc.  9. 

WOMEN. 

Being  a  woman,  I  will  not  be  slack 
To  play  my  part  in  Fortune's  pageant. 

Act  /,  Sc.  9. 


Iking  jpenns  OT.-jpart  ff. 

BugUSt  29. 

MEN. 

Pride  went  before,  ambition  follows  him. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

O  Nell,  sweet  Nell,  if  thou  dost  love  thy  lord, 
Banish  the  canker  of  ambitious  thoughts. 

Act  7,  Sc.  2. 


30* 

MEN. 

What  stronger  breastplate  than  a  heart  un- 
tainted ? 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

The  trust  I  have  is  in  mine  innocence, 
And  therefore  am  I  bold  and  resolute. 
Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

2lU0U8t  31. 
MEN. 

Let  pale-faced  fear  keep  with  the  mean-born 

man, 
And  find  no  harbour  in  a  royal  heart. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 
158 


1F,— jpart  fl*, 
WOMEN. 

O  Lord,  that  lends  me  life, 
Lend  me  a  heart  replete  with  thankfulness  ! 
For  thou  hast  given  me  in  this  beauteous  face, 
A  world  of  earthly  blessings  to  my  soul, 
If  sympathy  of  love  unite  our  thoughts. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 


'S9 


September. 


Ibenrs  tbe  Siitb-lPart  1firir* 
TOcbarD  tbe  GbfrD. 
IbentB  tbe 


mbat  is  pomp,  rule,  reign,  but  eartb  atrt>  ^uat  ? 
Bn&,  live  we  bow  we  can,  set  Me  we  must. 

ry  M<  Sixth— Part  III,    Act  Vt  Sc.  a. 


161 


li)1L-»art 

September  1* 
MEN. 

Wise  men  ne'er  sit  and  wail  their  loss, 
But  cheerily  seek  how  to  redress  their  harms. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 
'Tis  beauty  that  doth  oft  make  women  proud ; 

'Tis   virtue   that   doth   make  them  most  ad- 
mired ; 

The  contrary  doth  make  them  wonder'd  at : 
'Tis  government  that  makes  them  seem  divine. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 

September  2* 

MEN. 

See  how  the  morning  opes  her  golden  gates, 
And  takes  her  farewell  of  the  glorious  sun  ! 
How  well  resembles  it  the  prime  of  youth, 
Trimm'd  like  a  younker,  prancing  to  his  love. 

Act  If,  St.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Women  are  soft,  mild,  pitiful,  and  flexible. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 
162 


1L— part  1T1MF. 

September  3, 

MEN. 

Suspicion  always  haunts  the  guilty  mind ; 
The  thief  doth  fear  each  bush  an  officer. 

Act  V,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

Her  looks  do  argue  her  replete  with  modesty ; 
Her  words  do  show  her  wit  incomparable ; 
All  her  perfections  challenge  sovereignty. 

Act  HI,  Sc.  2. 

September  4. 
MEN. 

I  may  conquer  fortune's  spite 
By  living  low,  where  fortune  cannot  hurt  me. 

Act.  IV,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

Courage  .  .  .  what  cannot  be  avoided 
'Twere  childish  weakness  to  lament  or  fear. 
Methinks  a  woman  of  this  valiant  spirit 
Should,  if  a  coward  heard  her  speak  these 

words, 
Infuse  his  breast  with  magnanimity. 

Act  V9  Sc.  4. 
163 


tD1F*-par,t 
September  5. 

MEN. 

Gives  not  the  hawthorn-bush  a  sweeter  shade 
To  shepherds,  looking  on  their  silly  sheep, 
Than  doth  a  rich  embroider'd  canopy 
To  kings  that  fear  their  subjects*  treachery  ? 
O,  yes,  it  doth  ;  a  thousand-fold  it  doth. 
And    to    conclude,    the    shepherds'    homely 

curds, 

His  cold  thin  drink  out  of  his  leather  bottle, 
His  wonted  sleep  under  a  fresh  tree's  shade, 
All  which  secure  and  sweetly  he  enjoys, 
Is  far  beyond  a  prince's  delicates, 
His  viands  sparkling  in  a  golden  cup, 
His  body  couched  in  a  curious  bed, 
When  care,   mistrust,   and   treason   waits   on 

him. 

Act  77,  Sc .  j. 

WOMEN. 

She's  a  woman  to  be  pitied  much  : 

•         ••••••• 

Her  tears  will  pierce  into  a  marble  heart ; 
The  tiger  will  be  mild  whiles  she  doth  mourn. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 
164 


IRfcbarfc 

September  6* 

MEN. 

His   grace   looks   cheerfully   and  smooth  to- 
day ; 

There's  some  conceit  or  other  likes  him  well, 
When  he   doth   bid  good-morrow  with  such 

a  spirit. 

I  think  there's  never  a  man  in  Christendom 
That  can  less  hide  his  love  or  hate  than  he ; 
For  by  his  face  straight  shall  you  know  his 

heart. 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Within  so  small  a  space,  my  woman's  heart 
.  .  .  Grew  captive  to  his  honey  words. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

September  7, 

MEN. 

True   hope   is   swift,  and  flies  with  swallow's 

wings ; 
Kings  it  makes  gods,  and  meaner  creatures 

kings. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 


IRtcbarfc  fff . 

WOMEN. 

Bear  with  her  weakness,  which,  I  think,  pro- 
ceeds 
From    wayward   sickness,    and   no   grounded 

malice. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

September  8* 

MEN. 

We  will  not  stand  to  prate  ; 
Talkers  are  no  good  doers ;  .  .  . 
We  go  to  use  our  hands,  and  not  our  tongues. 

Act  I  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

She  hath  a  pretty  foot,  a  cherry  lip,  a  bonny 
eye,  a  passing  pleasing  tongue. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

September  9* 

MEN. 

They   that   stand   high   have  many  blasts  to 
shake  them ; 

And  if  they  fall,   they   dash  themselves   to 
pieces. 

Act  It  Sc.  j. 
166 


IRicbarfc  f  f  1T. 

WOMEN. 

She  may  help  you  to  many  fair  preferments ; 
And  then  deny  her  aiding  hand  therein, 
And  lay  those  honours  on  your  high  deserts. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

September  10* 

MEN. 

Because  I  cannot  flatter,  and  speak  fair, 
Smile  in  men's  faces,  smooth,  deceive,  and  cog, 
Duck  with  French  nods  and  apish  courtesy, 
I  must  be  held  a  rancorous  enemy. 
Cannot  a  plain  man  live,  and  think  no  harm, 
But  thus  his  simple  truth  must  be  abused 
By  silken,  sly,  insinuating  Jacks  ? 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 
Teach  not  thy  lips  such  scorn ;  for  they  were 

made 
For  kissing,  lady,  not  for  such  contempt. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

September  11. 

MEN. 

Since  every  Jack  became  a  gentleman, 
There's  many  a  gentle  person  made  a  Jack. 

Act  It  Sc.  j. 
167 


TRfcbarfc  finr. 

WOMEN. 
Your  beauty  .  .  .  did  haunt  me  in  my  sleep, 

As  all  the  world  is  cheered  by  the  sun, 
So  I  by  that :  it  is  my  day,  my  life 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

September  12. 

MEN. 

What  is  done  cannot  be  now  amended  : 
Men  shall  deal  unadvisedly  sometimes, 
Which  after  hours  give  leisure  to  repent. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

A  daughter  call'd  Elizabeth, 
Virtuous  and  fair,  royal  and  gracious. 
Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

September  13. 

MEN. 

Princes  have  but  their  titles  for  their  glories, 
An  outward  honour  for  an  inward  toil ; 
And,  for  unfelt  imagination, 
They  often  feel  a  world  of  restless  cares : 
So  that,  betwixt  their  titles,  and  low  name, 
There's  nothing  differs  but  the  outward  fame. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 
1 68 


Iking  tRicbarfc  Uf  1F. 

WOMEN. 

Madam,  have  comfort :  all  of  us  have  cause 
To  wail  the  dimming  of  our  shining  star  ; 
But  none   can   cure   their  harms  by  wailing 

them. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

September  14, 

MEN. 

O  momentary  grace  of  mortal  men, 
Which  we  more  hunt  for  than  the  grace  of 
God! 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Go,  .  .  .  mother,  to  thy  daughter  go  ; 
Make  bold  her  bashful  years  with  your  expe- 
rience, 
Prepare  her  ears  to  hear  a  wooer's  tale. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  4, 

September  15. 
MEN. 

I  have  heard  that  fearful  commenting 
Is  leaden  servitor  to  dull  delay ; 
Delay  leads  impotent  and  snail-paced  beggary. 

Act  IV.  Sc.  j. 
169 


t>enr£  Df fir* 

WOMEN. 

Shallow,  changing  woman ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

VTOL 

September  16* 

MEN. 

That  churchman   bears   a  bounteous  mind  in- 
deed, 

A  hand  as  fruitful  as  the  land  that  feeds  us  ; 
His  dews  fall  everywhere. 

Men  of  his  way  should  be  most  liberal ; 

They  are  set  here  for  examples. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  a  gallant  creature,  and  complete 

In  mind  and  feature. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

September  17* 
MEN. 

Fling  away  ambition  : 

By   that  sin  fell  the  angels;  how  can   man 
then, 

170 


Ibency  OTI f . 

Thy  image  of  his  Maker,  hope  to  win  by  it? 
Love  thyself  last :  cherish  those  hearts  that 

hate  thee  ; 

Corruption  wins  not  more  than  honesty. 
Still  in  thy  right  hand  carry  gentle  peace, 
To  silence  envious  tongues.     Be  just,  and  fear 

not  : 
Let  all  the  ends  thou  aim'st  at  be  thy  country's, 

Thy  God's,  and  truth's. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Two    women    placed  together  makes   cold 

weather. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

September  18. 

MEN. 

Envy  and  crooked  malice  nourishment, 
Dare  bite  the  best. 

Act  y,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

By  my  troth,  and  maidenhead, 
I  would  not  be  a  queen. 

.  .  .  Verily, 

.  .  .  'Tis  better  to  be  lowly  born, 
And  range  with  humble  livers  in  content, 
171 


Mflf, 

Than  to  be  perk'd  up  in  a  glistering  grief, 
And  wear  a  golden  sorrow. 

Act  //,  Sc.  3. 

September  19* 

MEN. 

He  was  a  scholar,  and  a  ripe  and  good  one ; 
Exceeding  wise,  fair-spoken,  and  persuading : 
Lofty  and  sour  to  them  that  loved  him  not; 
But  to  those  men  that  sought  him   sweet  as 

summer. 

Act  IV>  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

All  the  virtues  that  attend  the  good, 
Shall   still   be   doubled   on   her :   truth   shall 

nurse  her, 

Holy  and  heavenly  thoughts  still  counsel  her : 
She  shall  be  loved  and  fear'd  :  her  own  shall 

bless  her. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 

September  20. 

MEN. 

The  gentleman  is  learn'd,  and  a  most  rare 

speaker ; 
To  nature   none  more  bound ;   his   training 

such, 

172 


That  he  may  furnish  and  in  struct  great  teach- 
ers, 

And  never  seek  for  aid  out  of  himself  Yet 
see, 

When  these  so  noble  benefits  shall  prove 

Not  well  disposed,  the  mind  growing  once 
corrupt, 

They  turn  to  vicious  forms,  ten  times  more 
ugly 

Than  ever  they  were  fair. 

Act  I,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Thy  rare  qualities,  sweet  gentleness, 
Thy    meekness    saint-like,    wife-like    govern- 
ment, 

Obeying  in  commanding. 

Act  II,  Sc.  4. 

September  21. 

MEN. 

Things  done  well, 
And  with  a   care,   exempt   themselves   from 

fear ; 

Things  done  without  example,  in  their  issue, 
Are  to  be  fear'd. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

173 


WOMEN. 

So  good  a  lady  that  no  tongue  could  ever 
Pronounce  dishonour  of  her ;  by  my  life, 

She  never  knew  harm-doing. 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 

September  22* 

MEN. 

This  imperious  man  will  work  us  all 

From  princes  into  pages  :  all  men's  honours 

Lie  like  one  lump  before  him,  to  be  fashion'd 

Into  what  pitch  he  please. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

I  have  perused  her  well ; 
Beauty  and  honour  in  her  are  so  mingled. 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 

September  23* 
MEN. 

'Tis  a  kind  of  good  deed  to  say  well : 
And  yet  words  are  no  deeds. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 


WOMEN. 

Her 

That,  like  a  jewel,  has  hung  twenty  years 
About  his  neck,  yet  never  lost  her  lustre ; 
Of  her  that  loves  him  with  that  excellence 
That  angels  love  good  men  with  ;  even  of  her 
That,  when  the  greatest  stroke  of  fortune  falls, 

Will  bless. 

Act  77,  Sc.  2. 

September  24. 

MEN. 

The  force  of  his  own  merits  makes  his  way. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 
WOMEN. 

You  wrong  your  virtues 
With   these   weak   woman's    fears :    a  noble 

spirit, 

As  yours  was  put  into  you,  ever  casts 
Such  doubts,  as  false  coin,  from  it. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

September  25, 

MEN. 

We  must  not  stint 
Our  necessary  actions,  in  the  fear 
To  cope  malicious  censurers  ;  which  ever, 
J7S 


As  ravenous  fishes,  do  a  vessel  follow 
That  is  new  trimm'd,  but  benefit  no  further 
Than  vainly  longing.     What  we  oft  do  best, 
By  sick  interpreters,  once  weak  ones,  is 
Not  ours,  or  not  allow'd  ;   what  worst,  as  oft, 
Hitting  a  grosser  quality,  is  cried  up 
For  our  best  act.     If  we  shall  stand  still, 
In  fear  our  motion  will  be  mock'cl  or  carp'd  at, 
We  should  take  root  here  where  we  sit,  or  sit 
State-statues  only. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Heaven  bless  thee ! 
Thou  hast  the  sweetest  face  .  .  . 
.  .  .  She  is  an  angel. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

September  26* 

MEN. 
His  own  opinion  was  his  law : 

His  promises  were,  as  he  then  was,  mighty ; 
But  his  performance,  as  he  is  now,  nothing. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 
176 


\D1Ffir. 

WOMEN. 

A  constant  woman  to  her  husband, 
One  that  ne'er  dream'd  a  joy  beyond  his  pleas- 
ure; 

And  to  that  woman,  when  she  has  done  most, 
Yet  will  I  add  an  honour,  a  great  patience. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

September  27. 

MEN. 

Be  advised ; 

Heat  not  a  furnace  for  your  foe  so  hot 
That  it  do  singe  yourself :  we  may  outrun, 
By  violent  swiftness,  that  which  we  run  at, 
And  lose  by  over-running.     Know  you  not, 
The  fire  that  mounts  the  liquor  till  Jt  run  o'er, 
In  seeming  to  augment  it,  wastes  it  ? 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

That  primest  creature 

That's  paragon'd  o'  the  world. 

Act  IIt  Sc.  4. 

September  28* 

MEN. 

Farewell !  a  long  farewell,  to  all  my  greatness  ! 
This  is  the  state  of  man  :  to-day  he  pats  forth 
12  177 


The  tender  leaves  of  hopes  ;  to-morrow  blos- 
soms, 

And  bears  his  blushing  honours  thick  upon 
him  ; 

The  third  day  comes  a  frost,  a  killing  frost, 

And,  when  he  thinks,  good  easy  man,  full 
surely 

His  greatness  is  a-ripening,  nips  his  root, 

And  then  he  falls,  as  I  do. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

What  fair  lady's  that  ? 

By  heavens,  she  is  a  dainty  one, — 

Sweetheart. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

September  29. 

MEN. 

Stay,  my  lord, 

And  let  your  reason  with  your  choler  ques- 
tion 

What  'tis  you  go  about :  to  climb  steep  hills 
Requires  slow  pace  at  first :  anger  is  like 
A  full-hot-horse,  who  being  allow'd  his  way, 

Self-mettle  tires  him. 

Act  I,  Sc.  i. 
178 


WOMEN. 

Who  ever  yet 
Have   stood  to   charity,    and    display'd    the 

effects 
Of  disposition  gentle,  and  of  wisdom 

O'ertopping  woman's  power. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

September  30* 

MEN. 

We  all  are  men, 
In  our  natures  frail,  .  .  . 

.  .  .  Few  are  angels. 

Act  V%  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

You,  that  have  so  fair  parts  of  woman  on  you, 
Have  too  a  woman's  heart ;  which  ever  yet 
Affected  eminence,  wealth,  sovereignty; 
Which,  to  say  sooth,  are  blessings. 

Act  77,  Sc.  3. 


179 


©ctober. 

Ibamlet,  prince  of  2>enmarfc. 
Iking  fbenrs  tbe  ffiftb. 

Ubinas  muet  be  as  tbe$  may  :  .  *  »    Ubougb  patience  be  a 
tfrefc  mare,  set  sbe  will  plob. 

JITw(f  Henry  tht  Fifth.    A  ct  77,  Sc.  ». 


181 


•fcamlet, 

October  t. 

% 
MEN. 

Those  friends  thou  hast,  and  their  adoption 

tried, 

Grapple  them  to  thy  soul  with  hoops  of  steel ; 
But  do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  entertainment 
Of  each  new-hatch'd,  unfledged  comrade. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Whose  worth,  if  praises  may  go  back  again, 
Stood  challenger  on  mount  of  all  the  age 

For  her  perfections. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  7. 

October  2* 

MEN. 
Beware  of  entrance  to  a  quarrel ;  but  being 

in, 

Bear 't  that  the  opposed  may  beware  of  thee. 

Act  /,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

Lay  her  i'  the  earth ; 
And  from  her  fair  and  unpolluted  flesh 
May  violets  spring !  .  .  . 
A  ministering  angel  shall  my  sister  be. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  /. 
182 


fbamlet* 

October  3* 
MEN. 

Give   every  man   thy  ear,  but  few  thy  voice  ; 
Take  each  man's  censure,  but  reserve  thy  judg- 
ment. 

Act  /,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

O  rose  of  May  ! 
Dear  maid,  kind  sister,  .  .  . 
O  heavens !  is't  possible,  a  young  maid's  wits 
Should  be  as  mortal  as  an  old  man's  life  ? 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 

October  4* 
MEN. 

Costly  thy  habit  as  thy  purse  can  buy, 

But  not  express'd  in  fancy  ;  rich,  not  gaudy ; 

For  the  apparel  oft  proclaims  the  man. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

The  queen,  his  mother, 

Lives  almost  by  his  looks. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  7. 

183 


fbamlet. 

October  5* 
MEN. 

Neither  a  borrower  nor  a  lender  be  ; 
For  loan  oft  loses  both  itself  and  friend, 
And  borrowing  dulls  the  edge  of  husbandry. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Your  ladyship  is  nearer  heaven  than  when 

I  saw  you  last. 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

October  6* 
MEN. 

This  above  all  :  to  thine  own  self  be  true, 
And  it  must  follow,  as  the  night  the  day, 
Thou  canst  not  then  be  false  to  any  man. 

Act  It  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

What  a  treasure  had  he.  .  . 
.  .  .  One  fair  daughter,  and  no  more, 
The  which  he  loved  passing  well. 

Act  IIt  Sc.  2. 
184 


fbamlet. 

October  7* 

MEN. 

Odd's  bodikins,  man,  .  .  .  use  every  man 
after  his  desert,  and  who  should  'scape  whip- 
ping ? 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

WOMAN. 

We  are  oft  to  blame  in  this, — 
'Tis  too  much  proved — that,  with  devotion's 

visage 
And  pious  action  we  do  sugar  o'er 

The  devil  himself. 

Act  III.  Sc.  i. 


October  8. 

MEN. 

An  absolute  gentleman,  full  of  most  ex- 
cellent differences,  of  very  soft  society  and 
great  showing :  indeed,  to  speak  feelingly  of 
him,  he  is  the  card  or  calendar  of  gentry,  for 
you  shall  find  in  him  the  continent  of  what 

part  a  gentleman  would  see. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 

185 


1b am  let, 

WOMEN. 

When   sorrows   come,  they  come   not   single 
spies, 

But  in  battalions  ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  5. 

October  9. 

MEN. 

What  is  a  man, 

If  his  chief  good  and  market  of  his  time 
Be  but  to  sleep  and  feed  ?  a  beast,  no  more. 
Sure,  he   that   made   us  with  such  large  dis- 
course, 

Looking  before,  and  after,  gave  us  not 
That  capability  and  god-like  reason 

To  fust  in  us  unused. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

WOMAN. 

My  words  fly  up,  my  thoughts  remain  below  : 
Words,  without  thoughts  never  to  heaven  go. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

October  10. 

MEN. 

There  are  more  things  in  heaven  and  earth,  .  .  . 
Than  are  dreamt  of  in  your  philosophy. 

Act  /,  Sc.  5. 
186 


•fcamlet. 

WOMEN. 
Where  love  is  great,  the  littlest  doubts  are 

fear; 
Where  little  fears  grow  great,  great  love  grows 

there, 

Act  ///,  Sc.  2. 

October  ll. 

MEN. 

What  a  piece  of  work  is  a  man  !  how  noble 
in  reason  !  how  infinite  in  faculty !  in  form 
and  moving  how  express  and  admirable !  in 
action  how  like  an  angel !  in  apprehension 
how  like  a  god  !  the  beauty  of  the  world !  the 

paragon  of  animals  I 

Act  II,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Women's  fear  and  love  holds  quantity ; 
In  neither  aught,  or  in  extremity. 

Act  IIIt  Sc.  2. 

©ctobet  12. 

MEN. 

Let  your  own  discretion  be  your  tutor  :  suit 
the  action  to  the  word,  the  word  to  the 

action. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
187 


•fcamlet, 

WOMEN. 

What  to  ourselves  in  passion  we  propose, 
The  passion  ending,  doth  the  purpose  lose. 
The  violence  of  either  grief  or  joy 
Their  own  enactures  with  themselves  destroy. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

October  13* 

MEN. 

So,  oft  it  chances  in  particular  men, 
That  for  some  vicious  mole  of  nature  in  them, 
As,  in  their  birth — wherein  they  are  not  guilty, 
Since  nature  cannot  choose  his  origin — 
By  the  overgrowth  of  some  complexion, 
Oft  breaking  down  the  pales   and    forts   of 

reason, 

Or  by  some  habit  that  too  much  o'er-leavens. 
The  form  of  plausive  manners,  that  these  men, 
Carrying,  I  say,  the  stamp  of  one  defect, 
Being  nature's  livery,  or  fortune's  star, — 
Their  virtues  else— be  they  as  pure  as  grace, 
As  infinite  as  man  may  undergo — 
Shall  in  the  general  censure  take  corruption 
From  that  particular  fault :  the  dram  of  ill 
Doth  all  the  noble  substance  often  doubt 

To  his  own  scandal. 

Act  /,  Sc.  4. 
188 


f>amlet, 

WOMEN. 

Frailty,  thy  name  is  woman  ! 

Act  f,  Sc.  2, 

October  14* 

MEN. 

Tis  not  alone  my  inky  cloak,  .  .  . 
Nor  customary  suits  of  solemn  black, 
Nor  windy  suspiration  of  forced  breath, 
No,  nor  the  fruitful  river  in  the  eye, 
Nor  the  dejected  'haviour  of  the  visage, 
Together  with  all   forms,  moods,   shapes  of 

grief, 

That  can  denote  me  truly  :  these  indeed  seem, 
For  they  are  actions  that  a  man  might  play  : 
But  I  have  that  within  which  passeth  show  ; 
These  but  the  trappings  and  the  suits  of  woe. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

To  the  noble  mind, 

Rich  gifts  wax  poor  when  givers  prove  un- 
kind. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 
189 


Ibamlet* 

October  15, 

MEN. 

He  was  a  man,  take  him  for  all  in  all. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Be   somewhat   scanter  of   your  maiden  pres- 
ence ; 

Set  your  entreatments  at  a  higher  rate 
Than  a  command  to  parley. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

October  16* 
MEN. 

I  hold  ambition  of  so  airy  and  light  a  qual- 
ity, that  it  is  but  a  shadow's  shadow. 

Act  //,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

If  you   be   honest  and   fair,  your  honesty 
should  admit  no  discourse  to  your  beauty. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 
190 


•fcamlet. 

October  17. 

MEN. 

A  man  that  fortune's  buffets  and  rewards 

Hast  ta'en  with  evil  thanks  :  and   blest   are 
those, 

Whose  blood  and  judgment  are  so  well  com- 
mingled, 

That  they  are  not  a  pipe  for  fortune's  finger 

To  sound  what  stop  she  please. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Be  thou  as  chaste  as  ice,  as  pure  as  snow. 

Act  III,  Sc.i. 

October  18. 

MEN. 

A  fellow  of  infinite  jest,  of  most  excellent 
fancy. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

I  loved  Ophelia  :  forty  thousand  brothers 
Could  not,  with  all  their  quantity  of  love, 
Make  up  my  sum. 

Act  V,  Sc.  i. 
191 


•fcamlet. 

October  19* 

MEN. 

Let  us  know, 

Our  indiscretion  sometimes  serves  us  well, 
When  our  deep  plots  do  pall :  and  that  should 

teach  us 
There's  a  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends, 

Rough-hew  them  how  we  will. 

Act  V%  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

God  has  given  you  one  face,  and  you  make 
yourselves  another :  you  jig,  you  amble,  and 
you  lisp,  and  nickname  God's  creatures. 

Act  III,  Sc.  i. 

October  20* 
MEN. 

A  man's  life's  no  more  than  to  say,  "  One." 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 
Our  thoughts  are  ours,  their  ends  none  of  our 

own : 

So  think  thou  wilt  no  second  husband  wed ; 
But   die  thy  thoughts  when  thy  first  lord  is 

dead. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

192 


Damlet. 

October  21* 

MEN. 

'Tis  a  question  left  us  yet  to  prove, 
Whether  love  lead  fortune,  or  else  fortune  love. 
The  great  man  down,  you  mark  his  favourite 

flies; 

The  poor  advanced  makes  friends  of  enemies. 
And  hitherto  doth  love  on  fortune  tend ; 
For  who  not  needs  shall  never  lack  a  friend, 
And  who  in  want  a  hollow  friend  doth  try, 
Directly  seasons  him  his  enemy. 

Act  III,  Sc.2. 

WOMEN. 

A  mother  .  .  .  nature  makes  them  partial. 

Act  III,  Sc.  3. 

October  22. 

MEN. 

Every  man  has  business  and  desire, 
Such  as  it  is. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

If  he  says  he  loves  you, 
It  fits  your  wisdom  so  far  to  believe  it 
*3  193 


Damfet. 

As  he  in  his  particular  act  and  place 
May  give  his  saying  deed. 

And  keep  you  in  the  rear  of  your  affection, 
Out  of  the  shot  and  danger  of  desire. 
The  chariest  maid  is  prodigal  enough. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

October  23* 

MEN. 

To  divide  him  inventorially,  would  dizzy  the 
arithmetic  of  memory.  .  .  .  But,  in  the 
verity  of  extolment,  I  take  him  to  be  a  soul  of 
great  article. 

Act  V9  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Flights  of  angels  sing  thee  to  thy  rest. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 
ID* 


October  24. 

MEN. 

Heaven  doth  divide 
The  state  of  man  in  divers  functions, 
Setting  endeavour  in  continual  motion  ; 
194 


1tln0  Dents  ID. 

To  which  is  fixed,  as  an  aim  or  butt, 
Obedience :  for  so  work  the  honey-bees ; 
Creatures  that,  by  a  rule  in  nature,  teach 
The  act  of  order  to  a  peopled  kingdom. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

A  woman's  voice  may  do  some  good, 
When  articles  too  nicely  urg'd  be  stood  on. 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 

October  25* 

MEN. 

In  cases  of  defence,  'tis  best  to  weigh 
The  enemy  more  mighty  than  he  seems. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

What  says  she,  fair  one  ?  that  the  tongues 
of  men  are  full  of  deceits  ? 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 

October  26. 
MEN. 

He  hath  a  killing  tongue  and  a  quiet  sword  ; 
by  the  means  whereof  'a  breaks  words,  and 
195 


f>ent£  It). 

keeps  whole  weapons.  .  .  .     He  hath  heard 
that  men  of  few  words  are  the  best  men. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Gentlewomen,   that   live    honestly    by  the 

prick  of  their  needles. 

Act  If,  Sc.  A 

©ctober  27. 

MEN. 

Though  we  seemed  dead,  we  did  but  sleep : 
advantage  is  a  better  soldier  than  rashness. 

Act  III,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

There  is  flattery  in  friendship. 

Act  HI,  Sc.  7. 

October  28. 

MEN. 

These  fellows  of  infinite  tongue,  that  can 
rhyme  themselves  into  ladies'  favours,  they  do 
always  reason  themselves  out  again.  What ! 
a  speaker  is  but  a  prater ;  a  rhyme  is  but  a 

ballad.  ...     A  black  beard  will  turn  white  ; 
196 


Iking 

a  curled  pate  will  grow  bald  ;  a  fair  face  will 
wither  ;  a  full  eye  will  wax  hollow  ;  but  a  good 
heart  is  the  sun  and  the  moon  ;  or  rather, 
the  sun,  not  the  moon  ;  for  it  shines  bright, 
and  never  changes,  but  keeps  his  course 

truly. 

Act  F,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Terms, 

Such  as  will  enter  at  a  lady's  ear, 
And  plead  his  love-suit  to  her  gentle  heart  ? 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 

October  20. 

MEN. 

There  is  some  soul  of  goodness  in  things  evil, 
Would  men  observingly  distil  it  out ; 
For  our  bad  neighbour  makes  us  early  stirrers, 
Which  is  both  healthful  and  good  husbandry : 
Besides,  they  are  our  outward  consciences, 
And  preachers  to  us  all ;  admonishing 
That  we  should  dress  us  fairly  for  our  end. 
Thus  may  we  gather  honey  from  the  weed, 
And  make  a  moral  of  the  devil  himself. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  i. 
197 


fking  f>entB  It), 

WOMEN. 
An  angel  is  like  you,  and  you  are  like  an 

angel. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 

October  30. 

MEN. 
O  hard  condition  !  twin-born  with  greatness, 

What  infinite  heart's  ease  must  kings  neglect, 

That  private  men  enjoy  ? 

And  what  have  kings  that  privates  have  not 

too, 

Save  ceremony,  save  general  ceremony  ? 
And  what  art  thou,  thou  idol  ceremony  ? 

O  ceremony,  show  me  but  thy  worth  ? 

What  is  thy  soul  of  adoration  ? 

Art  thou  aught  else  but  place,  degree,   and 

form, 

Creating  awe  and  fear  in  other  men  ? 
Wherein  thou  art  less  happy  being  fear'd 
Than  they  in  fearing. 
What  drink'st  thou   oft,   instead  of  homage 

sweet, 

But  poison'd  flattery  ? 

Act  IV,  Sc.  /. 
198 


ID. 

WOMEN. 

Thy  voice  is  music. 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

October  31. 
MEN. 

I  know  no  ways  to  mince  it  in  love,  but 
directly  to  say — I  love  you:  then,  if  you  urge 
me  further  than  to  say — Do  you  in  faith  ?  I 
wear  out  my  suit.  Give  me  your  answer :  i' 
faith  do;  and  so  clap  hands  and  a  bargain: 
how  say  you,  lady  ? 

Act  V,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

God,  the  best  maker  of  all  marriages, 

Combine  your  hearts  in  one,  .   .  . 

As  man  and  wife,  being  two,  are  one  in  love, 

Receive  each  other ! — God  speak  this  Amen ! 

Act  Vt  Sc.  2. 


199 


IRovember* 


Cotfolanus. 
fdn0  Xeat. 

Citus  Bndronfcus. 

Ibavc  more  tban  tbou  sbowcst, 
SpeaF?  U00  tban  tbou  hnovvest. 

AT^  Lear— Act  /, 


201 


Cotfolanus. 

November  t. 

MEN. 

He  has  grown  too  proud  to  be  so  valiant. 

Such  a  nature, 

Tickled  with  good  success,  disdains  the  shadow 
Which  he  treads  on  at  noon. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

You  would  be  another  Penelope :  yet  they 
say,  all  the  yarn  she  spun  in  Ulysses'  absence 
did  but  fill  Ithaca  full  of  moths.  Come ;  I 
would  your  cambric  were  sensible  as  your 
finger,  that  you  might  leave  pricking  it  for 
pity. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

Iftovembet  2. 

MEN. 

Action  is  eloquence,   and  the  eyes  of    the 

ignorant 
More  learned  than  the  ears. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 
202 


Coriolanus. 

WOMEN. 

Noble  lady! 

.  .  .  Speak  fair  :  you  may  salve  so, 
Not  what  is  dangerous  present,  but  the  loss 

Of  what  is  past. 

Act  III,  Sc.  a. 

November  3. 

MEN. 

He  hath  been  used 

Ever  to  conquer,  and  to  have  his  worth 
Of  contradiction  :  being  once  chafed,  he  can- 
not 

Be  rein'd  again  to  temperance  :  then  he  speaks 
What's  in  his  heart. 

Act  III,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

I  have  a  heart  as  little  apt  as  yours, 
But  yet  a  brain  that  leads  my  use  of  anger 
To  better  vantage. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

November  4* 

MEN. 

Where  is  your  ancient  courage  ?  you  were  used 
To  say,  extremity  was  the  trier  of  spirits ; 
203 


Coriolanus* 

That  common   chances   common   men   could 

bear  ; 

That,  when  the  sea  was  calm,  all  boats  alike 
Show'd  mastership  in  floating. 

ActlVt  Sc.i. 

WOMEN. 

Mother, 
Resume  that  spirit,  when  you  were  wont  to 

say, 

If  you  had  been  the  wife  of  Hercules, 
Six  of  his  labours  you'd  have  done,  and  sav'd 
Your  husband  so  much  sweat. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  i. 

November  5* 

MEN. 

Now  we  have  shown  our  power, 
Let  us  seem  humbler  after  it  is  done, 
Than  when  it  was  a  doing. 

Act.  IV,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Tell  these  sad  women, 
'Tis  fond  to  wail  inevitable  strokes, 

As  it  is  to  laugh  at  them. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  /. 
204 


Corfolanua, 

IRovembet  6. 

MEN. 

O,  world,  thy  slippery  turns!     Friends  now 

fast  sworn, 

Whose  double  bosoms  seem  to  wear  one  heart, 
Whose   hours,   whose  bed,  whose  meal,  and 

exercise, 
Are  still  together,  who   twin,  as  't  were,  in 

love 

Unseparable,  shall  within  this  hour, 
On  a  dissension  of  a  doit,  break  out 
To  bitterest  enmity  :  so,  fellest  foes, 
Whose  passions  and  whose  plots  have  broke 

their  sleep 

To  take  the  one  the  other,  by  some  chance, 
Some  trick  not  worth  an  egg,  shall  grow  dear 

friends, 
And  interjoin  their  issues. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Ladies,  you  deserve 
To  have  a  temple  built  you. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 
205 


Gotfolanua* 

November  7. 

MEN. 

I  knew  by  his  face  that  there  was  something 
in  him  :  he  had,  sir,  a  kind  efface,  methought, 
— I  cannot  tell  how  to  term  it.  ...  He  is 
simply  the  rarest  man  in  the  world. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 
You  are  manifest  housekeepers. 

What  are  you  sewing  here  ? 

Act  /,  Sc.  3. 

flovember  8. 

MEN. 

A  worthy  officer ;  .  .  .  but  insolent, 
Overcome  with  pride,  ambitious  past  all  think- 
ing, 
Self-loving. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  6. 

WOMAN. 

Do  you  know  this  lady  ? 

.  .  .  Chaste  as  the  icicle, 

That's  curded  by  the  frost  from  purest  snow. 

Act  V,  Sc.  j. 
206 


Hear. 

flovembet  9* 

MEN. 

So  we'll  live, 
And  pray,  and  sing,  and  tell  old  tales,  and 

laugh 

At  gilded  butterflies,  and  hear  poor  rogues 
Talk  of  court  news  ;  and  we'll  talk  with  them 

too, — 
Who  loses,  and  who  wins  :   who's  in,  who's 

out, 
And  take  upon  us  the  mystery  of  things, 

As  if  we  were  God's  spies. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  $. 

WOMAN. 
I   love  you  more  than  word  can   wield  the 

matter, 

Dearer  than  eyesight,  space  and  liberty  ; 
Beyond  what  can  be  valued,  rich  or  rare ; 
No  less  than  life,  with  grace,  health,  beauty, 

honour. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

November  10. 

MEN. 

I  can  keep  honest  counsel,  ride,  run,  mar  a 
curious  tale  in  telling  it,  and  deliver  a  plain 
207 


Xear. 

message    bluntly;  that  which   ordinary   men 
are  fit  for  I  am   qualified  in :  and  the  best  of 

me  in  diligence. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 
Proper  deformity  seems  not  in  the  fiend 

So  horrid  as  in  woman. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 

IRovember  It* 

MEN. 

O,  sir,  to  wilful  men, 
The  injuries  that  they  themselves  procure 

Must  be  their  schoolmasters. 

Act  77,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

She,  .  .  .  your  best  object, 
The  argument  of  your  praise,  balm   of  your 
age, 

The  best,  the  dearest.  .  .  . 

Act  I,  Sc.z. 

•November  12. 

MEN. 
He  that  has  and  a  little  tiny  wit, — 

With  heigh,  ho,  the  wind  and  the  rain, — 
208 


fting  Xear. 

Must  make  content  with  his  fortunes  fit, 
Though  the  rain  it  raineth  every  day. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Thy  truth  then  be  thy  dower. 

Actlt  Sc.  i. 

November  13, 
MEN. 

This  is  the  excellent  foppery  of  the  world  ! 
that,  when  we  are  sick  in  fortune,  (often  the 
surfeit  of  our  own  behaviour,)  we  make  guilty 
of  our  disasters  the  sun,  the  moon,  and  stars  : 
as  if  we  were  villains  on  necessity  ;  fools  by 
heavenly  compulsion ;  knaves,  thieves,  and 
treachers,  by  spherical  predominance  ;  drunk- 
ards, liars,  ...  by  an  enforced  obedience  of 
planetary  influence  ;  and  all  that  we  are  evil 
in,  by  a  divine  trusting  on. 

Act  It  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Who  covers  faults  at  last  shame  them  derides. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 
14  209 


fcing  Xeat. 

flovember  14* 
MEN. 

Thou  hast  seen  a  farmer's  dog  bark  at  a 
beggar  ?  .  .  .  And  the  creature  run  from  the 
cur?  There  thou  mightst  behold  the  great 
image  of  authority ;  a  dog's  obeyed  in  office. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

She  shook 

The  holy  water  from  her  heavenly  eyes, 
And    clamour    moisten'd :  —  then    away   she 

started 
To  deal  with  grief  alone. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j. 

November  15. 
MEN. 

Through  tattered  clothes  small  vices  do  ap- 
pear; 

Robes  and  furr'd  gowns  hide  all.  Plate  sin 
with  gold, 

And  the  strong  lance  of  justice  hurtless 
breaks ; 

Arm  it  in  rags,  a  pigmy's  straw  doth  pierce  it. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  6. 

2IO 


Xear* 

WOMEN. 

Patience  and  sorrow  strove 
Who  should  express  her  goodliest.     You  have 

seen 
Sunshine  and  rain  at  once :  her  smiles  and 

tears 

Were  like  a  better  day :  Those  happy  smilets, 
That  play'd  on  her  ripe  lip,  seem'd  not  to 

know 
What  guests  were  in  her  eyes  ;  which  parted 

thence, 
As  pearls  from  diamonds  dropp'd. — In  brief, 

sorrow 

Would  be  a  rarity  most  belov'd,  if  all 
Could  so  become  it. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 

flovembet  16* 

MEN. 

A  man  may  see  how  this  world  goes,  with 
no  eyes.  Look  with  thine  ears :  see  how 
yon'  justice  rails  upon  yon'  simple  thief. 
Hark,  in  thine  ear :  Change  places ;  and, 
handy-dandy,  which  is  the  justice,  which  is 
the  thief  ? 

Act  IV,  Sc.  6. 

211 


Ring  Xear, 

WOMEN. 

O  undistinguished  space  of  woman's  will ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  6. 

flovembet  17* 

MEN. 

Know  thou  this, — that  men 

Are  as  the  time  is. 

Act  V%  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

Thou  hast  a  daughter, 

Who  redeems  nature  from  the  general  curse. 

Act  JV,  Sc.  6. 

November  18* 

MEN. 

Some  good  I  mean  to  do, 

Despite  of  mine  own  nature. 

Act  V,  Sc.  3 

WOMEN. 

We  are  not  the  first, 
Who,   with  best  meaning,   have   incurred  the 

worst. 

Act  V,  Sc.  3. 

212 


Icing  Xeat, 

November  w. 

MEN. 

Wise  men  are  grown  foppish, 
They  know  not  how  their  wits  to  wear, 
Their  manners  are  so  apish. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Her  voice  was  ever  soft, 
Gentle,  and  low,  an  excellent  thing  in  woman. 

Act  V.  Sc.  j. 

November  20* 

MEN. 

I  do  profess  to  be  no  less  than  I  seem  ;  to 
serve  him  truly  that  will  put  me  in  trust ;  to 
love  him  that  is  honest ;  to  converse  with  him 
that  is  wise,  and  says  little. 

A  very  honest-hearted  fellow. 

Act  7,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Love's  not  love 

When  it  is  mingled  with  regards  that  stands 
213 


BnDronicus. 

Aloof  from  the  entire  point.     Will  you  have 
her? 

She  is  herself  a  dowry. 

Act  /,  St.  i. 

Uitus  Unfcrontcus. 

"Wovembet  21* 

MEN. 

King,  be  thy  thoughts  imperious,  like  thy  name. 
Is  the  sun  dimm'd,  that  gnats  do  fly  in  it  ? 
The  eagle  suffers  little  birds  to  sing, 
And  is  not  careful  what  they  mean  thereby, 
Knowing  that  with  the  shadow  of  his  wings 
He  can  at  pleasure  stint  their  melody. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Be  unto  us  as  is  a  nurse's  song 
Of  lullaby  to  bring  her  babe  asleep. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

•November  22* 

MEN. 

We  are  but  shrubs ;  no  cedars  we, 
No  big-boned  men  framed  of  the  Cyclops'  size ; 
But  metal,  .  .  .  steel  to  the  very  back. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  3. 
214 


WOMEN. 

Fresh  tears 

Stood  on  her  cheeks,  as  doth  the  honey-dew 
Upon  a  gathered  lily  almost  wither'd. 

Act  III,  Sc.  /. 

November  23* 

MEN 

I  have  heard  my  grandsire  say  full  oft, 
Extremity  of  griefs  would  make  men  mad. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  r. 

WOMEN. 

I  blush  .  .  . 

Why,  there's  the  privilege  your  beauty  bears  : 

Fie,   treacherous   hue,   that   will  betray  with 

blushing 

The  close  enacts  and  counsels  of  the  heart ! 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 

flovember  24. 

MEN. 

Alas,  poor  man  !  grief  has  so  wrought  on  him, 
He  takes  false  shadows  for  true  substances. 

Act  III,  Sc.  2.     ' 
215 


Uitus  Bnfcronicus. 

WOMEN. 

Sorrow  concealed,  like  an  oven  stopp'd, 
Doth  burn  the  heart  to  cinders  where  it  is. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

November  25. 

MEN. 

You  must  resolve, 

That  what  you  cannot  as  you  would  achieve, 
You  must  perforce  accomplish  as  you  may. 

Act  //,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Do  thou  .  .  .  show  a  woman's  pity, 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 


26* 

MEN. 

He  lives  in  fame  that  died  in  virtue's  cause. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Wherefore  look'st  thou  sad, 
When  everything  doth  make  a  gleeful  boast  ? 
216 


Situs  Bnoronfcue* 

The  birds  chant  melody  on  every  bush, 

The  green  leaves  quiver  with  the  cooling  wind 
And  make  a  chequer'd  shadow  on  the  ground. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

fiopem&er  27* 

MEN. 

Brother,  for  in  that  name  doth  nature  plead, — 
Father,  and  in  that  name  doth  nature  speak. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

My  compassionate  heart 
Will  not  permit  mine  eyes  once  to  behold 
The  thing  whereat  it  trembles  by  surmise. 

Act  //,  Sc.  j. 

•November  28. 
i 
MEN. 

Thanks  to  men  of  noble  minds  is  honourable 

meed. 

Act  It  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

A  goodly  lady,  ...  of  the  hue 
That  I  would  choose,  were  I  to  choose  anew. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 
217 


Situs  Bndronicus. 

flovember  29. 
MEN. 

Sweet  mercy  is  nobility's  true  badge. 

Act  /,  Sc.  /. 

WOMEN. 

Madam,  stand  resolved,  but  hope  withal. 

Act  7,  Sc.  /. 

November  30. 
MEN. 

Let  my  father's  honours  live  in  me. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  woo'd  ; 
She  is  a  woman,  therefore  may  be  won  ; 
She  is  Lavinia,  therefore  must  be  loved. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 


December. 


CBtnbelfne. 

poems  anD  Sonnets. 


TKHben  we  sball  bear 
Ube  rain  anb  w(nb  beat  barft  December,  bow, 

.  .  .  Sball  we  Mscouice 
Ube  fxee3ina  bouis  awa^  Z 

Cymbeline,  Act  ///,  .SV.  3. 


219 


Cgmbettne* 

December  I. 

MEN. 

A  courtier, 

Although  they  wear  their  faces  to  the  bent 
Of  the  king's  looks,  hath  a  heart  that  is  not 
Glad  at  the  thing  they  scowl  at. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Your  lady 

Is  one  of  the  fairest  that  I  have  looked  upon. 
And  therewithal  the  best :  or  let  her  beauty 
Look  through  a  casement  to  allure  false  hearts. 
And  be  false  with  them. 

Act  //,  Sc.  4. 

December  2. 

MEN. 

To  apprehend  .  .  . 

Draws  us  a  profit  from  all  things  we  see : 
And  often,  to  our  comfort,  shall  we  find 
The  sharded  beetle  in  a  safer  hold 
Than  is  the  full-wing'd  eagle.     O  this  life 
Is  nobler,  than  attending  for  a  check  ; 
Richer,  than  doing  nothing  for  a  bribe; 
220 


Prouder,  than  rustling  in  unpaid-for  silk  : 
Such  gains  the  cap  of  him  that  makes  him 

fine, 
Yet  keeps  his  book  uncross'd. 

Act  III,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

O, 

Men's  vows  are  women's  traitors ! 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 

December  3* 
MEN. 

One  of  your  great  knowing 
Should  learn,  being  taught  forbearance. 

Act  77,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

She's  fair  and  royal ; 

She  hath  all  courtly  parts  more  exquisite 
Than  lady,  ladies,  woman ;  from  every  one 
The  best  she  hath,  and  she,  of  all  compounded, 
Outsells  them  all :  I  love  her  therefore. 

Act  777,  Sc.  j. 

221 


dBtnbelfne* 

December  4. 
MEN. 

Poor  fools 
Believe  false  teachers.    Though  those  that  are 

betray'd 
Do  feel  the  treason  sharply,  yet  the  traitor 

Stands  in  worse  case  of  woe. 

Act  ///,  Sc.  4. 

WOMEN. 

Forbear  sharp  speeches  to  her  :  She's  a  lady 
So  tender  of  rebukes,  that  words  are  strokes, 

And  strokes  death  to  her. 

Act  III,  Sc.  5. 

December  5, 

MEN. 

I  consider, 
By  medicine  life  may  be  prolonged,  yet  death 

Will  seize  the  doctor  too. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

Our  very  eyes, 
Are  sometimes  like  our  judgments,  blind. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  2. 

122 


tigmbetine. 

December  0. 
MEN. 

Doubts  by  time  let  them  be  cleared  : 
Fortune  brings  in  some  boats  that   are   not 
steer'd. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  j 

WOMEN. 

Mine  eyes 

Were  not  in  fault,  for  she  was  beautiful ; 
Mine  ears,   that  heard  her  flattery ;  nor  my 

heart, 
That  thought  her  like  her  seeming :   it  had 

been  vicious 
To  have  mistrusted  her. 

Act  Vt  Sc.  j. 

December  7* 

MEN. 

He  is  one 

The  truest  manner'd  :  such  a  holy  witch, 
That  he  enchants  societies  unto  him  : 
Half  all  men's  hearts  are  his. 

Act  7,  Sc.  6. 
223 


WOMEN. 

The  walls  of  thy  dear  honour  ;  keep  unshak'd 
That  temple,  thy  fair  mind. 

Act  II,  Sc.  i. 

December  8, 

MEN. 

What  shalt  thou  expect, 
To  be  depender  on  a  thing  that  leans, — 
Who  cannot  be  new  built,  nor  has  no  friends, 

So  much  as  but  to  prop  him  ? 

Act  I,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

A  lady,  that  disdains 

Thee,  and  the  devil  alike. 

Act  /,  Sc.  6. 

December  9, 

MEN. 

This  gentleman,  .  .  .     How  worthy  he  is  I 
will   leave   to   appear  hereafter,    rather  than 

story  him  in  his  own  hearing. 

Act  /,  Sc.  j. 

224 


Cgmbeline. 

WOMEN. 

Fair,  virtuous,  wise,  chaste,  constant,  quali- 
fied, and  less  attemptable,  than  any,  the  rarest 
of  our  ladies. 

Act  ft  Sc.  4. 

December  10* 

MEN. 

He  was  then  of  a  crescent  note  ;  expected  to 
prove  so  worthy  as  since  he  hath  been  allowed 
the  name  of :  but  I  could  then  have  looked  on 
him  without  the  help  of  admiration  ;  though 
the  catalogue  of  his  endowments  had  been 
tabled  by  his  side,  and  I  to  peruse  him  by 
items. 

Act  7,  Sc.  j, 

WOMEN. 

Fortify  her  judgment,  which  else  an  easy 
battery  might  lay  flat. 

Act  I,  Sc.j. 

December  u. 

MEN. 

He  ...  is  a  creature  such 
As  to  seek  through  the  regions  of  the  earth 
15  225 


For  one  his  like,  there  would  be  something 

failing 

In  him  that  should  compare.     I  do  not  think 
So  fair  an  outward,  and  such  stuff  within, 

Endows  a  man  but  he. 

Act  7,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

She  shines  not  upon  fools,  lest  the  reflection 

should  hurt  her. 

Act  /,  Sc.  3. 

December  12. 
MEN. 

He  is  a  man  worth  any  woman. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

Her  beauty  and  her  brain  go  not  together  : 
she's  a  good  sign,  but  I  have  seen  small  reflec- 
tion of  her  wit. 

Act  I,  Sc.  3. 

December  13. 

MEN. 

My  queen  !  my  mistress  ! 
O,  lady,  weep  no  more ;  lest  I  give  cause 
226 


C^mbeline. 

To  be  suspected  of  more  tenderness 
Than  doth  become  a  man  !     I  will  remain 
The  loyal'st  husband  that  did  e'er  plight  troth. 
My  residence  in  Rome,  .  .  . 

.  .  .  Thither  write,  my  queen, 
And  with  mine  eyes  I '11  drink  the  words  you 
send, 

Though  ink  be  made  of  gall. 

Act  /,  Sc.  2.  < 

WOMEN. 

O    dissembling    courtesy  !     How    fine    this 
tyrant 

Can  tickle  where  she  wounds  ! 

Act  /,  Sc.  2. 

December  14. 

MEN. 

He  liv'd  in  court, 
(Which  rare  it   is  to  do,)  most  prais'd,  most 

loved  ! 

A  sample  to  the  youngest ;  to  th'  more  ma- 
ture 

A  glass  that  feated  them  ;  and  to  the  graver, 
A  child  that  guided  dotards  :  to  his  mistress — 
•  .  .  Her  own  price 

227 


Ggmbeltne* 

Proclaims  how  she  esteem'd    him    and    his 

virtue ; 

By  her  election  may  be  truly  read 
What  kind  of  man  he  is. 

Act  /,  Sc.  i. 

WOMEN. 

You  shall  not  find  me,  .  .  . 
After  the  slander  of  most  step-mothers, 
Evil-ey'd  unto  you. 

Act  /,  Sc.  a. 

December  15* 

MEN'. 

He  sits  'mongst  men,  like  a  descended  god : 
He  hath  a  kind  of  honour  sets  him  off, 
More  than  a  mortal  seeming. 

Act  Jt  Sc.  6. 

WOMEN. 

Fear  and  niceness, — the  handmaids  of  all 
women,  or,  more  truly,  women  its  pretty  self. 

Act  III,  Sc.  4. 
228 


Ggmbeline, 

December  16. 
MEN. 

Nobly  he  yokes 

A  smiling  with  a  sigh  :  as  if  the  sigh 
Was  that  it  was,  for  not  being  such  a  smile ; 

The  smile  mocking  the  sigh. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  2. 

WOMEN. 

Society  is  no  comfort 

To  one  not  sociable. 

Act  IV,  Sc.  a. 

December  17. 

MEN. 

Winning  will  put  any  man  into  courage. 

Act  II,  Sc.  j. 

WOMEN. 

The  flame  o'  the  taper 
Bows  toward  her ;  and  would  under-peep  her 

lids, 

To  see  the  enclosed  lights,  now  canopied 
Under  these  windows,  white  and  azure  lac'd 
With  blue  of  heaven's  own  tinct. 

Act  77,  Sc.  a. 
229 


Csmbeline* 

December  18, 

MEN. 

The  art  o'  the  court, 

As  hard  to  leave,  as  keep ;  whose  top  to  climb 
Is  certain  falling,  or  so  slippery  that 

The  fear's  as  bad  as  falling. 

Act  III,  Sc.  3. 

WOMEN. 

I  am  much  sorry,  sir, 
You  put  me  to  forget  a  lady's  manners, 
By  being  so  verbal :  and  learn  now,  for  all, 
That  I,  which  know  my  heart,  do  here  pro- 
nounce, 

By  the  very  truth  of  it,  I  care  not  for  you  ; 
And  am  so  near  the  lack  of  charity, 
(To  accuse  myself,)  I  hate  you ;  which  I  had 
rather 

You  felt,  than  make  't  my  boast, 

Act  II.  Sc.j. 

December  19, 

MEN. 

He  was  too  good,  to  be 
Where  ill  men  were  ;  and  was  the  best  of  all 

Amongst  the  rarest  of  good  ones. 

Act  V,  Sc,  j. 
230 


poems  anD  Sonnets* 

WOMEN. 

Thou  shalt  not  lack 
The  flower  that's  like  thy  face,  pale  primrose ; 

nor 

The  azur'd  hare-bell,  like  thy  veins ;  no,  nor 
The  leaf  of  eglantine,  whom  not  to  slander, 
Outsweeten'd  not  thy  breath. 

Act  IVt  Sc.  2. 

poems  anfc  Sonnets, 

December  20* 

MEN. 

Crabbed  age  and  youth  cannot  live  together 
Youth  is  full  of  pleasance,  age  is  full  of  care, 
Youth  like  summer  morn,  age  like  winter 

weather ; 

Youth  like  summer  brave,  age  like  winter  bare. 
The  Passionate  Pilgrim. 

WOMEN. 

Those  parts  of  thee  that  the  world's  eye  doth 

view 
Wants  nothing  that  the  thought  of  hearts  can 

mend; 

Sonnet  69. 


anD  Sonnet0. 

December  21* 
MEN. 

All  my  merry  jigs  are  quite  forgot 
All  my  lady's  love  is  lost,  God  wot : 

O  frowning  Fortune,  cursed,  fickle  dame  ! 

For  now  I  see 

Inconstancy 

More  in  women  than  in  men  remain. 

The  Passionate  Pilgrim* 

WOMEN. 

If  I  could  write  the  beauty  of  your  eyes 
And  in  fresh  numbers  number  all  your  graces, 
The  age  to  come  would  say  "  This  poet  lies  : 
Such  heavenly  touches  ne'er  touch 'd  earthly 

faces." 

Sonnet  77. 

December  22* 

MEN. 

My  love  is  sirengthen'd  though  more  weak  in 

seeming ; 

I  love  not  less,  though  less  the  show  appear  : 
232 


poems  and  Sonnets. 

That  love  is  merchandized  whose  rich  esteem- 
ing 

The  owner's  tongue  doth  publish  everywhere. 

Sonnet  102. 

WOMEN. 

Let  me  not  to  the  marriage  of  true  minds 
Admit  impediments.     Love  is  not  love 
Which  alters  when  it  alteration  finds 
Or  bends  with  the  remover  to  remove : 
O,  no !  it  is  an  ever-fixed  mark 
That  looks  on  tempests  and  is  never  shaken ; 
It  is  the  star  to  every  wandering  bark 
Whose  worth's  unknown,  although  his  height 

be  taken. 
Love's  not  Time's  fool,  though  rosy  lips  and 

cheeks 

Within  his  bending  sickle's  compass  come ; 
Love  alters  not  with  his  brief  hours  and  weeks. 
But  bears  it  out  even  to  the  edge  of  doom. 

Sonnet  116. 

December  23* 

MEN. 

He  did  in  the  general  bosom  reign 
Of  young,  of  old ;  and  sexes  both  enchanted, 
233 


U>oem0  and  Sonnets* 

To  dwell  with  him  in  thoughts,  or  to  remain 
In  personal  duty,  following  where  he  haunted. 
A  Lover's  Complaint 

WOMEN. 

Love's  best  habit  is  in  seeming  trust, 
And  age  in  love  loves  not  to  have  years  told. 

Sonnet  ij8 

December  24, 
MEN. 

On  the  tip  of  his  subduing  tongue 
All  kind  of  arguments  and  question  deep, 
All  replication  prompt,  and  reason  strong, 
For  his  advantage  still  did  wake  and  sleep  : 
To  make  the  weeper  laugh,  the  laugher  weep, 
He  had  the  dialect  and  different  skill. 
Catching  all  passions  in  his  craft  of  will : 

A  Lover's  Complaint. 

WOMEN. 

To  me,  fair  friend,  you  never  can  be  old, 
For  as  you  were  when  first  your  eye  I  eyed, 
Such  seems  your  beauty  still. 

Sonnet  IQ.J.. 

234 


poems  anD  Sonnets. 

December  25. 

MEN. 

He  that  is  thy  friend  indeed, 
He  will  help  thee  in  thy  need  : 
It  thou  sorrow,  he  will  weep ; 
If  thou  wake,  he  cannot  sleep ; 
Thus  of  every  grief  in  heart 
He  with  thee  doth  bear  a  part 
There  are  certain  signs  to  know 
Faithful  friend  from  flattering  foe. 

The  Passionate  Pilgrim. 

WOMEN. 

O,  how  much  more  doth  beauty   beauteous 

seem 

By  that  sweet  ornament  which  truth  doth  give  I 
The  rose  looks  fair,  but  fairer  we  it  deem 
For  that  sweet  odor  which  doth  in  it  live. 

Sonnet  54. 

December  26. 

MEN. 
His  qualities  were  beauteous  as  his  form, 

Yet,  if  men  moved  him,  was  he  such  a  storm 
As  oft  'twixt  May  and  April  is  to  see. 

Lover's  Complaint. 
235 


Poems  and  Sonnets, 

WOMEN. 

Nor  the  lays  of  birds,  nor  the  sweet  smell 
Of  different  flowers  in  odour  and  in  hue, 
Could  make  me  any  summer's  story  tell, 
Or  from  their  proud  lap  pluck  them  where 

they  grew ; 

Nor  did  I  wonder  at  the  lily's  white, 
Nor  praise  the  deep  vermilion  in  the  rose ; 
They  were  but  sweet,  but  figures  of  delight, 
Drawn  after  you,  you  pattern  of  all  those. 

Sonnet  98. 

December  27* 
MEN. 

Words  are  easy,  like  the  wind  ; 
Faithful  friends  are  hard  to  find  ; 
Every  man  will  be  thy  friend 
Whilst  thou  hast  wherewith  to  spend ; 
But  if  store  of  crowns  be  scant, 
No  man  will  supply  thy  want. 

The  Passionate  Pilgrim. 

WOMEN. 

That  thou  art  blamed  shall  not  be  thy  defect, 
For  slander's  mark  was  ever  yet  the  fair ; 
236 


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The  ornament  of  beauty  is  suspect, 
A  crow  that  flies  in  heaven's  sweetest  air. 

Sonnet  70. 

December  28. 

MEN. 
Tired  with  all  these,  .  .  . 

Simple  truth  miscall'd  simplicity, 
And  captive  good  attending  captain  ill : 
Tired  with  all  these,  from  these  would  I  be 
gone. 

Sonnet  66. 

WOMEN. 

A  woman's  face  with   Nature's    own    hand 
painted 

Hast  thou,  .  .  . 

A  woman's  gentle  heart,  but  not  acquainted 

With  shifting  change,  as  is  false  women's  fash- 
ion. 

Sonnet  20. 

December  20* 

MEN. 

The  painful  warrior  famoused  for  fight, 
After  a  thousand  victories  once  foil'd, 
237 


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Is  from  the  book  of  honour  raized  quite, 
And  all  the  rest  forgot  for  which  he  toiFd. 

Sonnet  25. 

WOMEN. 

Shall  I  compare  thee  to  a  summer's  day  ? 
Thou  art  more  lovely  and  more  temperate : 
Rough  winds  do  shake  the  darling  buds  of 

May, 
And  Summer's  lease  hath  all  too  short  a  date : 

But  thy  eternal  summer  shall  not  fade. 

Sonnet  i8t 

December  30. 

MEN. 

I  am  that  I  am,  and  they  that  level 
At  my  abuses  reckon  up  their  own. 

Sonnet  121. 

WOMEN. 

That  time  of  year  thou  mayst  in  me  behold 
When  yellow  leaves,  or  none,  or  few,  do  hang 
Upon  those  boughs  which  shake  against  the 

cold, 
Bare  ruin'd  choirs,  where  late  the  sweet  birds 

sang. 

Sonnet  73. 

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MEN. 

Like  as  the  waves  make  towards  the  pebbled 

shore, 

So  do  our  minutes  hasten  to  their  end ; 
Each   changing   place  with  that    which  goes 

before, 
In  sequent  toil  all  forwards  do  contend. 

And  Time  that  gave   doth  now  his  gift  con- 
found. 

Time  doth  transfix  the  flourish  set  on  youth, 
And  delves  the  parallels  in  beauty's  brow, 
Feeds  on  the  rarities  of  nature's  truth, 
And  nothing  stands  but  for  his  scythe  to  mow. 

Sonnet  60. 

WOMEN. 

When  to  the  sessions  of  sweet  silent  thought 
I  summon  up  remembrance  of  things  past, 
I  sigh  the  lack  of  many  a  thing  I  sought, 
And  with  old  woes  new  wail  my  dear  time's 
waste. 

Sonnet  jo. 


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